6 sentences with 'severe'
Example sentences and phrases with the word severe and other words derived from it.
• « Laura had suffered severe injuries, multiple punctures to her skull and injuries to her right eye, and a bone fragment had been driven into her brain, paralysing the right half of her body. »
• « Scientists call the cuckoo's behavior "social parasitism"; a rather severe term, in my opinion. »
• « I regret to inform you that she has suffered a severe nervous breakdown in the form of persecutory mania, accompanied by horrendous hallucinations. »
• « For elite Greek women, social restrictions were severe: they were usually confined to the inner sanctums of homes, interacting only with family members or close female friends from families of the same social rank, and when they did go out in public they had to do so in the company of chaperones. »
• « In the northern hemisphere, this change began in the 14th century but became drastically more pronounced between 1570 and the early 18th century, with the most severe period lasting from about 1600 to 1640, precisely when Europe's most destructive religious war of all, the Thirty Years' War, ravaged the Holy Roman Empire. »