extremities

Example Sentences

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Tattoos dotted his extremities, including an anchor on his right leg with the words “I refuse to sink.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 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

Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2024

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

I relate the way the poor Tree Man’s extremities hung from him like gnarled trunks, and with that disturbing image firmly planted in my head, I’m pumped, confident, and take a bigger bite.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson