SEVERITY in a Sentence
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420 example sentences for SEVERITY, such as:
1. We didn't realize the severity of her illness.
2. Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.
3. He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.
4. Next, hardening his heart, the barin attempted severity.
5. The administration had several reasons for holding back.
2. Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.
3. He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.
4. Next, hardening his heart, the barin attempted severity.
5. The administration had several reasons for holding back.
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Meanings and Examples of SEVERITY
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severity
n. extreme rigor; strictness; rigidity; harshness
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.
2 He looked upon me, however, with some degree of severity, and then, turning towards my conductors, he asked who appeared as witnesses on this occasion.
3 But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
4 This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
5 Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.
6 Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity.
7 Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity.
8 A better proof of the severity of my bondage to that taskmaster could scarcely be afforded, than the degrading shifts to which I was constantly driven to find him employment.
9 Mr. Chillip was fluttered again, by the extreme severity of my aunt's manner; so he made her a little bow and gave her a little smile, to mollify her.
10 There was one advantage, and only one that I know of, in Mr. Creakle's severity.
11 Sir,' said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, 'I've laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself.
12 Mr. Spenlow seemed quite cowed by the gentlemanly sternness of Miss Murdstone's manner, and deprecated her severity with a conciliatory little wave of his hand.
13 "Cessez," she said with playful severity.
14 Ever and anon they would beg to be excused from work, or start making complaints of the severity of the barstchina.
15 Next, hardening his heart, the barin attempted severity.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The risk and severity of sunburn depend on the body's natural skin colour.
2 We didn't realize the severity of her illness.
3 Some of the reported difference in rates of metabolism could relate to the severity of the underlying colitis.
4 The condition ranges in severity from a mild degree of poor functioning to complete kidney failure.
5 In my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others.
6 Her new book is several notches above anything else she has written.
7 He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.
8 The various building programmes add up to several thousand new homes.
9 The administration had several reasons for holding back.
10 The fragile economies of several southern African nations could be irreparably damaged.
11 We export tractors from the East Coast to several African countries.
12 After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
13 The relief agency will distribute the food among several countries.
14 For several years she operated a dating agency from her basement flat.
15 Kenneth takes several phone calls from his agent.