Example sentences for: extremes

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

  • Only two words have more than one syllable: Stevens follows to extremes the old schoolhouse rule that short words work better than long ones.

  • Most Japanese theater aims less at developing a coherent plot, in the Western manner, than at creating a particular tone, atmosphere, and emotional extremes.

  • If Culturebox were making a point, rather than manufacturing a conceit, it would be this: that these two extremes of contrarian opinion--Maslin's brittle cheerfulness and Siegel's apocalyptic dourness--have somehow brought their holders to the same lonely place.

  • Strong multiculturalists, if they follow their argument to its extremes, end up having to support some other culture whose basic principles violate their own--thereby elevating the values of that culture above their own.

  • If there’s no magic formula for the perfect bargain — each person will have his own psychological approach — you should avoid two extremes: Don’t be too eager, and don’t, on the other hand, assume everybody is out to cheat you.


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