Sentence for severe | Use severe in a sentence

Examples of severe sentences. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use severe in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for severe.

• How severe I am! (9)
• They are severe on boxing. (10)
• The law is unreasonably severe. (12)
• The world was severe with this old gentleman. (10)
• From that period his penance had become severe. (4)
• I dare say you think Mr. Whitford rather severe. (10)
• His reverie had thrown him into severe commotion. (10)
• Only she was not severe, like her father, not exactly! (8)
• His tone was severe in the deliberation of its accents. (10)
• Thou wilt find it a test severe; Unerring whatever the theme. (10)
• Her spirit supported her, but the agony of her mind was severe. (4)
• It would lessen the tortures of hell, however severe they might be. (5)
• The severe schooling I gave myself was not without its immediate use. (9)
• This was the point Emilia had to attain, in his severe contemplation. (10)
• It was severe; the tender serenity of the full bow of the eyes relieved it. (10)
• Three to one in such a case is a severe trial to the reason of solitary one. (10)
• A most severe and unexpected Blow at once destroyed every sensation of Pleasure. (4)
• He was rather severe in his notions of the subordination his domestics owed him. (9)
• He was severe and silent all day with his clerks, and peremptory with customers. (9)
• As this was the attitude of a severe student, Mrs. Chump remained in expectation. (10)
• My course of probation was severe and long before she allowed her heart to speak. (10)
• It came into my mind the instant I woke, and gave me this severe case of conscience. (9)
• She begged Mr. Beaton to try to think of some one who would be a little less severe. (9)
• Emma was sadly fearful that this second disappointment would be more severe than the first. (4)
• But many weeks were to pass before she recovered; a severe relapse again endangered her life. (5)
• I have a serious intention to preserve this young duchess, and I expect my task to be severe. (10)
• He is very severe against me indeed, and yet I hope I have not been hasty in my judgment of her. (4)
• It was, in fact, too severe a test for human nature and the feelings which Church ought to arouse. (8)
• All was in copper coinage, Lycurgan and severe, and reached the sum of one pound, seventeen shillings. (10)
• All was in copper coinage, Lycurgan and severe, and reached the sum of one pound, seventeen shillings. (22)
• The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain. (4)
• And had it not been that Blink and the maid seized his coat-tails he would have done them severe injury. (8)
• She seemed older, more severe in face than he had thought, than her photograph on his office desk said. (13)
• Early in life he became a member, as a pianist, of the Bologna Philharmonic Academy, after a severe test. (3)
• The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring! (10)
• The tension of nerve and brain was too severe; nature came to his relief with intervals of unconsciousness. (1)
• This was considered the true Greek mode, and was called severe, firm and manly, suitable for martial songs. (3)
• The severe storms and heavy snows of the winter made game very scarce and the Indians were near starvation. (18)
• Only, as these were severe upon lovers, the innocence of their meetings demanded indemnification in frequency. (10)
• That was rather different from a fall on duty before the enemy, incurred by severe exhaustion after sunstroke! (10)
• The thin branches of the trees rose bare and severe between him and the blue sky, mementos of the silent winter. (13)
• It was his habit to sit by her at the piano corner, but to-day he stood as if prepared to be exceptionally severe. (8)
• She was flushed, and had thinned her lips for utterance of a desperate thing, after the first severe formalities. (10)
• Lady Susan is surely too severe, for Frederica does not seem to have the sort of temper to make severity necessary. (4)
• He was awfully severe with them for their foolishness, and said they must write to Armiger at once and confess the fact. (9)
• When the hour of departure drew near, the maternal anxiety of Mrs. Morland will be naturally supposed to be most severe. (4)
• Then, too, the old scale forms caused anything written in their idioms to sound grave, severe and dignified, if not harsh. (3)
• They are born, it would seem, with more than the common allowance of kibes for treading on: a severe misfortune for them. (10)
• She was under the spell of gratitude for his behaviour yesterday evening at her dinner-table; she could not be very severe. (10)
• The starvation which ruled his own existence inclined him to a particularly severe view and severity was not his strong point. (8)
• He had all the clearness and quickness of mind which she wanted, and he could sometimes act an ungracious, or say a severe thing. (4)
• The blow was severe: immense quantities of war material had fallen to the victor, together with all the important strategic points. (7)
• The man who did this, and who afterward placidly endured a severe reprimand from the coroner, was a son-in-law of the late Charles Breede. (1)
• To-day it rose bare and severe across the brown meadow, unrelieved by the leafless branches of the elms that crisscrossed the south front. (13)
• The head had received a severe contusion, but he had seen greater injuries recovered from: he was by no means hopeless; he spoke cheerfully. (4)
• A tender warmth crept round me in thinking that a mind thus lofty would surely be, however severe in its insight, above regrets and recantations. (10)
• Her hands, cased in tan gauntlets, held a basket which warded off the bearded gardener from the severe but ample lines of her useful-looking skirt. (8)
• He was disposed to excuse the formal look of his bookcases, which were filled with sets, and presented some phalanxes of fiction in rather severe array. (9)
• The execution was so severe that every one of the starboard main-shrouds was carried away and the Englishman was thrown into utter confusion on his deck. (18)
• In fact Berlin, which is otherwise so grandiose without grandeur and so severe without impressiveness, is sympathetic wherever the Spree opens it to the sky. (9)

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Definition of severe:

• severe, s-vr’, adj. serious: grave: austere: strict: not mild: strictly adhering to rule: free from florid ornamentation, simple: sharp: distressing: inclement: searching: difficult to be endured. | adv. svre’ly. | ns. svre’ness; sver’ity, quality of being severe: gravity: harshness: exactness: inclemency. (0)

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