drastic
Example Sentences
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“But you’re stuck with your facial geometry and your fingerprint for life unless you take drastic measures like burning your fingerprints off,” he says.
This is a time when a good financial adviser should be trying to talk you out of taking drastic action, not urging you into it.
Magnusson opposed drastic efforts to resist aging: “Plastic surgery does not make you look younger—to me it just makes you look like you have had plastic surgery.”
My stomach flipped at the thought of doing something so drastic—living alone in a shabby room, in a house full of strangers.
From Literature
It makes for a drastic turn from the early hours of April 28, when the first clouds of black smoke rose over Tehran.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
