SEVERITY in a Sentence

Learn SEVERITY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SEVERITY
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
3  But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5  Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
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.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
7  Frosts will soon set in, and in all probability with severity.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
10  There was one advantage, and only one that I know of, in Mr. Creakle's severity.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
11  Sir,' said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, 'I've laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38. A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
13  "Cessez," she said with playful severity.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
14  Ever and anon they would beg to be excused from work, or start making complaints of the severity of the barstchina.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
15  Next, hardening his heart, the barin attempted severity.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
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.