Example sentences for: extremes

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

  • While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."

  • The United States falls somewhere between these extremes.

  • In fact, the success of her novel lies in its casualness, the way it makes the extremes of religious practice seem cozily normal.

  • I may be wrong, of course, but I don't think Russia is on its way to solid prosperity, more like third-world extremes of rich and poor.

  • Outliers Instances that are aberrant or do not fit with other instances; instances that, compared to other members of a population, are at the extremes on relevant dimensions.


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