extremities
Example Sentences
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The border frames an oddly shaped expanse that resembles a shredded kite, with San Pedro and Wilmington dangling from a string at the southern extremities.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2025
It listed a number of "targeted disabilities": "Hearing, vision, missing extremities, partial paralysis, complete paralysis, epilepsy, severe intellectual disability, psychiatric disability and dwarfism".
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025
These complications include carotid artery calcification, calcification of the abdominal aorta and peripheral vessels in the lower extremities, and small vessel disease in the feet.
From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024
The body responds to feeling cold, he said, by tightening blood vessels to stanch blood flow to the extremities.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2024
Suddenly it stood still to an inexpressible feeling that thrilled it through, and passed at once to my head and extremities.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
