How to Use "extremity" with Example Sentences

1. Donor fatigue and the extremity of the country 's poverty are now causing those hopes to wither .
2. Since then , aznar , who runs a think tank and sits on the board of rupert murdoch 's news corp. , has distinguished himself mainly by the extremity of his rhetoric .
3. Situated in the north-west extremity of the north american continent , alaskais the largest state in theunited statesby area .
4. Consider africa , where nearly half of the top 60 countries in the failed states index are located , in most cases south of -- or at least at the southern extremity of -- the sahara .
5. The wily womb , in this account , " gets disconnected and angry , and wandering in every direction through the body , closes up the passages of the breath , and by obstructing respiration , drives them to extremity , causing all varieties of disease . "