Like some weather

Usage examples of severe.

So I started to work with them and, from the time I did my first study, I was surprised to see that the brains of the cocaine abusers had very severe changes.

Her heart sank even further when she realized that the prolonged anoxia had caused a severe metabolic acidosis as well.

The piece was written with great acrimony, and abounded with severe animadversions, not only upon the conduct of the returning officer, but also on the proceedings of the commons.

And even if the freak chance that had struck Wally with a severe loss of his mental acuity, were to hit him too, he wanted no anaesthesia, no blurring of the memory.

The hair was so acutely sensitive that the slightest touch occasioned severe pain at the roots.

These measures stretched out the available coffee far better than did chicory additives or other substitutes, but there still were severe shortages.

In severe hemorrhages, this quantity should be administered every half hour, until the bleeding is checked.

So he would never have seen that out of the twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty-six starships which had come to Norfolk, twenty-two of them experienced an alarming variety of severe mechanical and electrical malfunctions as they departed for their home planets.

A severe downdraft or wind shear is scary at cruising altitude, but not life-threatening if you have a seatbelt on.

Behind the breast-bone there is experienced a sense of uneasiness, in some cases amounting to pain, more or less severe.

It even figured in the prospectus of Homewood, the Arling Avenue day school for girls and little boys which the Misses Chibwell had carried on with equal success and inconspicuousness until the Severe affair suddenly brought them into the glare of a terrifying publicity.

Carus, Diocletian, Maximian, Constantius, Galerius, Asclepiodatus, Annibalianus, and a crowd of other chiefs, who afterwards ascended or supported the throne, were trained to arms in the severe school of Aurelian and Probus.

If there is any other cause of animosity between the tribes besides the matter of avenging the dead there will now be a pretty severe fight with spears.

Johnson had been copiously illustrating the guilt of treason, and avowing his intention to punish traitors with the severest penalty known to the law, Mr.

Miss Bayberry cast her sister a severe expression, then cleared her throat and continued.