- plural of extreme.
extremes
Example Sentences
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At Mennour, Dhewadi Hadjab captures the extremes of the body in motion through his highly realistic paintings that depict amateur dancers in mind-bending contortions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
"Denise's entire life revolved between the two extremes of courage and suffering," Luigi Ciotti, president of Libera wrote, calling that a difficult balance.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The nearly weeklong event takes place on a sun-blasted, nearly six-square-mile patch of a 200-mile Pleistocene-era lakebed in Nevada, and is a place of extremes, with very cold nights and hot days.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Such weather extremes may have caused queens to abandon their nests or die, reducing the initial spring queen bounty to a more modest population.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026
In most patients, Type I diabetes spurs the appetite, sometimes to extremes.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
