Example sentences for: extent

How can you use “extent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1994, Congress enacted a statute designed to help realize to the maximum extent practicable cost savings for official travel from frequent traveler benefits.

  • To the extent that the uses in question are for academic or archival purposes, such as those discussed above, it is certainly true that the CCAL permits practices that “all rights reserved” licenses do not.

  • The extent of the precisely conserved arm (thus including a potential miRNA) was in most cases longer than the mature product, and it would have been arbitrary to select a candidate miRNA sequence just so that it began with a U. Notably, a recent study suggests that different chemical strategies for capturing miRNA molecules may differentially recover miRNAs according to their 5' ends [ 33 ] , so reevaluation of miRNA 5' bias may be in order.

  • Critics on the right dismissed the tour as a simplistic photo op, and Peter Edelman, a former Clinton official who quit to protest the 1996 welfare reform, called it cosmetic, arguing that Clinton "cannot admit the extent of the problem because his Administration has a vested interest in the notion that welfare reform has been a success."

  • Personality is for the most part an analytic construct, of interest only to the extent that it can help in the understanding of historical events.


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