extremities
Example Sentences
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Your core temperature continues to plummet because the chilled blood from your extremities returns to your heart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
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
Her agile lower extremities might lead you to believe that Foster is made of rubber.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2024
The mortal form of greyscale began in the extremities, he knew: a tingling in a fingertip, a toenail turning black, a loss of feeling.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
