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"Severe" in a Sentence (16 examples)
Mr Yoshida is too severe with his children.
On the whole, the country has a severe climate.
On the whole, Canada has a severe climate.
We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.
Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.
No weather was severe enough to keep him indoors.
The law, as it is, is not so severe.
That country has a severe climate.
Unless it rains in Ethiopia soon, there could be severe drought problems.
Jack is very severe with his children.
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In the severer cases of hookworm the patient sometimes has an appetite for soil, paper, hair, clay, chalk, starch, and other unpalatables.
Parkinsonism, at its severest, presents itself as an akinetic amimia (as opposed to certain cortical disorders which are amimic akinesias).
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
a severe taskmaster
a severe old maiden aunt
severe clothing
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