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Example sentences for "extremes"

Lexicographically close words:
extreeme; extrema; extreme; extremely; extremer; extremest; extremis; extremism; extremist; extremists
  1. England was despoiled by her own victories; luxury and poverty increased at the extremes of society, and the balance of the better mediævalism was lost.

  2. It is a queer point of psychology that with the same wish two such minds as Swift and Dickens came to the extremes of the emotions of love and hate.

  3. Livia, quick, bring my cloak, For I must seek refuge from these extremes Even in the temple of the highest God Where secretly the faithful worship.

  4. At both extremes of his journey he reaped only disillusion.

  5. Many churches to-day are running to extremes in one way or another.

  6. Thus, the two extremes of the treatment of women might be represented by what are called the respectable classes in America and in France.

  7. By both extremes the woman gets something back out of life.

  8. She was in a very wild mood, a very hard mood, and yet all ready to be softened by a kind, sympathetic word, so nearly do extremes of emotion meet.

  9. For there she soon finds it impossible to go to the extremes that American air seems to rush her into.

  10. This she calls keeping out of extremes and discouraging exaggeration.

  11. He soon got to dress and to talk like an Englishman, though he never went to extremes in what he loved to irritate his schoolfellows by calling the "English accent.

  12. Between these extremes there would be many shades and degrees of ignorance and knowledge.

  13. Hinduism is an unusual combination of animism and pantheism, which are commonly regarded as the extremes of savage and of philosophic belief.

  14. These extremes have been avoided by the Tathâgata and it is a middle doctrine that he teaches," namely, dependent origination as explained in the chain of twelve links.

  15. More striking extremes of this are shown by D.

  16. The extremes of geographic variation in Dipodomys ordii are greater than in any other species of the genus.

  17. In his migrations he avoids the two extremes of heat and cold, never going farther north than Russia, nor, in winter, further south than the land of the Nile.

  18. Firmly seated on his rapid steed, he gallops at will across the trackless plain, and combining the two extremes of solitude and activity, confines his half-savage existence to the custody or the ownership of his herds of horses and cattle.

  19. It is no longer thought correct to go to extremes in carrying out a "color scheme.

  20. Extremes in hot and cold bathing should be avoided.

  21. Great care should therefore be taken that, while genuine sensibility is cherished, its extremes should be avoided, and the mind fortified by strengthening the higher powers.

  22. Extremes touch, and in touching may for a space become confused, indistinguishable.

  23. Do not recklessly invite the ugly extremes such as you would, yourself, have practised had the situation been reversed.

  24. And the extremes of love and hate were to-night so confused in the soul of Captain Blood that in their fusion they made up a monstrous passion.

  25. If you would see the two extremes of manner brought into near comparison, you should turn from a Yankee storekeeper to a French Canadian!

  26. The extremes of light and shade concentre in the principal figure, that of Christ, and to this everything else in the composition is either subordinate or accessory.

  27. Extremes meet, and these classes include both those living on passive investments, and those dependent on their daily labor for a livelihood.

  28. What shall be the actual rate as between these extremes is a question whose answer depends on our economic legislation as to ownership, exploitation, prices, use, and substitution.

  29. Ranging between the extremes of unavoidable risk-taking and of gambling are a number of cases of a mixed nature.

  30. Within the Chamber, the parties of extremes ceased to exercise any real influence.

  31. It was the intention of Napoleon to roll back the extremes of the Spanish line to the east and the west, and, breaking through its centre, to move straight upon Burgos and Madrid.

  32. Footnote 1: And the extremes meet; for the lowest state of civilization, a nomad or wandering life, finds its counterpart in the highest, where everyone is at times a tourist.

  33. The true policy of the United States is probably between the extremes of protection and free trade.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "extremes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; exaggeration; exorbitance; extravagance; extreme; extremism; extremity; frontier; gluttony; hyperbole; hypertrophy; incontinence; intemperance; overgrowth; overmuch; radicalism; unreasonableness