We found 116 examples of how to use extent in an English sentence.
Sentences 76 to 100 of 116.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 76. | To a large extent this is a healthy attitude to have. | |
| 77. | Language determines a person's world view to a considerable extent. | |
| 78. | All families are, to a greater or lesser extent, dysfunctional. | |
| 79. | You are beautiful to such an extent that everyone loves you. | |
| 80. | Rising temperatures are reducing ice volume and surface extent on land, lakes, and sea. This loss of ice is expected to continue. | |
| 81. | Dan doesn't know the extent of Linda's criminal history. | |
| 82. | William's reputation as a telescope maker grew to such an extent that he quit his job as a musician and devoted all of his time to the making of telescopes and to astronomy. | |
| 83. | I can't help but marvel at the extent of human stupidity. | |
| 84. | Everyone agreed to a certain extent. | |
| 85. | Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious. | |
| 86. | In space, your body would swell without a pressure suit because liquid in your soft tissues and, to a lesser extent, water in your circulatory system would begin to vaporize. Contrary to some existing myths, you would not explode—your skin is too strong for that to happen. | |
| 87. | Of course I totally agree with you that something should be done about that, but I don't know to what extent your plan is realistic. | |
| 88. | One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven. | |
| 89. | Fadil might be lying about the extent of his relationship with Layla. | |
| 90. | Fadil was responsible to some extent to what happened to Layla. | |
| 91. | Fadil was curious to see to what extent Arabic and Hebrew were similar to one another. | |
| 92. | Layla's letters revealed the extent of her racism. | |
| 93. | It is important to recognize the extent of one's ignorance. | |
| 94. | "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." | |
| 95. | Sir Charles lay on his face, his arms out, his fingers dug into the ground, and his features convulsed with some strong emotion to such an extent that I could hardly have sworn to his identity. | |
| 96. | Sami beat Layla to the extent she was hospitalized. | |
| 97. | Lake Erie is known for seiches, especially when strong winds blow from southwest to northeast. In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot-high sea wall killing 78 people and damming the ice to the extent that Niagara Falls temporarily stopped flowing. | |
| 98. | Language is to a great extent a tool for concealing the truth. | |
| 99. | Tom is right to a certain extent. | |
| 100. | It may be remembered that after my marriage, and my subsequent start in private practice, the very intimate relations which had existed between Holmes and myself became to some extent modified. |