How to Use extreme in a Sentence

extreme

1 of 2 adjective

• Many thought that the punishment was too extreme for the crime.
• The plant is sensitive to extreme heat and cold.
• The plan was rejected as too extreme.
• She went on an extreme diet.
• He has extreme opinions when it comes to politics.
• Members of the extreme right opposed the legislation.
• They are living in extreme poverty.
• This is an extreme example of what can happen when a company grows too quickly.
• Both the state and the city framed things in less extreme terms.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
• The extreme pogo stick stunt team will flip across The Backyard every day of the fair.
  — Heather Bushman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2023
• The cuts of the shop’s suits honor the extreme drape look of the ’40s, Estrella says, but over the years colors and fabrics have evolved.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• This is an amazing bean that can withstand and even prosper in the most extreme heat and drought.
  — Sean Sherman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2023
• An extreme solution, which has worked, is to kill your lawn, rototill it, and move all the soil around.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2023
• Heat Stroke Too much heat exposure and extreme heat can cause heat stroke.
  — Mark Gurarie, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• Teen girls are caught in an extreme wave of sadness and violence, CDC warns.
  — Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• Dance Wire walking and rock climbing count as extreme sports.
  — The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• The results ranged from nothing to extreme side effects, one of which damaged her gut.
  — Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• The truth is sometimes stranger than fiction and traversing Discovery+ will take you on a journey of extreme fact-finding.
  — Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
• He was made to sleep with Helen Moses, Saul Newton’s sixth wife, under extreme duress.
  — Nellie Hermann, The New Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
• A little bit more extreme version of that is dying and coming back.
  — Julian Sancton, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
• And in some cases, such as during Australia’s recent extreme heat waves, both baby birds and adult birds have dropped dead due to the heat.
  — Nidhi Sharma, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• The extreme cliffhanger was a deliberate move on Cahn’s part.
  — Julie Tremaine, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• Still, the company is trying to address workers’ well-being in the extreme heat.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• The cast and crew suffered from altitude sickness and the extreme cold conditions.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024
• People’s bodies have not yet acclimated to the heat and there is a extreme risk of drowning in open water that is both cold and fast this time of year.
  — oregonlive, 15 May 2023
• Watching her daughter’s own history-making run on the show inspired her to get into a gym and try her hand at the extreme sport.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 18 Oct. 2023
• The extreme heat is nothing new to Phoenix residents, who are coming out of the hottest summer ever recorded.
  — Eshaan Sarup, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2023
• The misshapen cells stick together in vessels and cut off blood flow and oxygen, causing extreme pain.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 19 Dec. 2023
• But the thing that’s overriding that is a really pure, just extreme excitement—and a chance to animate this book that has been in my head for so long.
  — Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
• But most clerics are pliant, and a vocal minority are even more extreme than their patriarch.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024

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extreme

2 of 2 noun

• His mood changed from one extreme to the other.
• After spending lavishly for years, the company has now gone to the opposite extreme and has cut expenses drastically.
• In that way, the park has always been a place of extremes.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• That’s a self-portrait that has long been fatuous in the extreme.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• Any one of the issues could go to great extremes and cause big disruption.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• The emotions also felt muted to the extreme throughout.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• As part of that goal, the Kremlin sought to unite Germany’s political extremes from the left and right.
  — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
• And for internet fiends, the 11-character video IDs on Youtube take this to an extreme.
  — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2023
• Sweeney's drapey Givenchy ’fit, consisting of an open-back top and matching maxi skirt, took the red-carpet see-through trend to the extreme.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2023
• Record-setting events struck all over the planet this year, a harbinger of new extremes to come.
  — E&e News, Scientific American, 20 Nov. 2023
• Now is not the time for businesses and nonprofits to go to extremes either.
  — Eric Reicin, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• This new version of Ocean takes the electric crossover to the extreme with a cornucopia of off-road goodies.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 10 May 2023
• Samir Dhurandhar, chef-partner at Nick & Sam’s in Dallas, takes it to the extreme.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
• But the videos take the notion of restocking to its logical extreme.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2024
• For instance, Nayeon loves to play a game of extremes, where members are forced to choose between two tough choices.
  — Jenna Wang, Peoplemag, 24 Feb. 2024
• The impact of such weather extremes is hard to miss and India’s poor are among the most vulnerable.
  — Heather Chen, CNN, 17 July 2023
• The number of days the soil experienced heat extremes increased twice as fast.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• My wife has immersed herself in politics to the extreme.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
• How Addie’s early work had taken that idea to an extreme.
  — Camille Bordas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Psychiatrists say that for many people who have been put through the wringer over the past decade, the climate extremes are one crisis too many.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• For researchers like Cobb who pay close attention to extremes, 2023 already has them in spades.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• But people in China are feeling the extremes this summer.
  — Chris Mooney, Washington Post, 19 July 2023
• Makueni County, a corner of southern Kenya that’s home to nearly a million people, is a land of extremes.
  — WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
• While open debate is hardly a novel concept, the Dodgers have tried to take it to productive extremes.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Democracies are inherently like this, of course, but the U.S. is sort of extreme in this regard.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 18 June 2023
• To make the Fleetwood fit this role, Cadillac has pushed its styling and handling to extremes inappropriate to the size and design of the new C-bodies.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 16 Mar. 2023
• Johnson’s dramatic exit is the latest — but maybe not the last — chapter in a career of extremes.
  — Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• The ladies of Orange are back and this season, friendships are tested and relationships are pushed to the extreme as Tamara Judge returns to the show.
  — oregonlive, 7 June 2023
• Those extremes were reflective of Brenner's mercurial nature on and off the field for the club.
  — The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2023
• The displays are also not guaranteed in coming years as climate change tips the scale toward more frequent extremes.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024