extremities
Example Sentences
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Also, your heart rate spikes, your blood pressure soars, the blood vessels in your extremities constrict to keep warm blood near your core and you begin to gasp involuntarily.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
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
Which is to say that she has always been curious about the extremities of human behavior.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 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
