English example sentences with "extent"

Learn how to use extent in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

I accept what you say to some extent.

Foreigners complain that it is difficult to get to know Japanese people. To some extent this may be true.

We often fail to realize the extent to which we depend on others.

We could see the full extent of the park from the hotel.

To what extent can he be trusted?

I have no idea to what extent I can trust them.

To what extent was the report true?

It was to a great extent his own fault.

To some extent, you can control the car in a skid.

The rumor is true to some extent.

I found the rumor to be true to a certain extent.

Jimmy is to some extent capable of performing this operation.

This is the extent of my ability.

To what extent did he play a part in the research project?

This plan will serve its purpose to some extent.

Credit is an amount or limit to the extent of which a person may receive goods or money for payment in the future.

I can trust him to a certain extent.

You are right to a certain extent.

I agree with what you say to some extent.

To some extent I agree with you.

I agree with you to a certain extent.

I trust him to some extent.

I agree with you to some extent.

Business is, to a large extent, improving.

The mayor will compromise to a certain extent.

The mayor compromised on the subject to a certain extent.

This is at best the extent of my magic.

I have studied Psychology to some extent.

I can understand you to some extent.

I agree with your interpretation to a large extent.

I can understand French to a certain extent.

I agree with him to a certain extent, but not entirely.

I can understand this problem to some extent.

I am satisfied with my life in college to a certain extent.

They don't see the extent to which they depend on others.

A man will succeed to the same extent as he perseveres.

The teacher was surprised at the extent of his knowledge.

The extent of the damage is inestimable.

Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models - which are always inadequate, often incomplete and sometimes profoundly wrong.

The earth's ecosystem is to some extent self-correcting, so it is also possible that the effects are being masked by other changes.

To this extent, it has the characteristics of a great complicated balance between plant life and lower forms of animal life.

The average life span of the Japanese has lengthened to a great extent.

His opinion is right to some extent.

What he said applies, to a certain extent, to this case.

What he says is true to some extent.

To what extent can you answer for his deed?

He says he has achieved his goal to a certain extent.

He's unlucky to a pitiful extent.

He trusts his wife to a great extent.

Judging from what she says, he is satisfied to a great extent.

She speaks Japanese to some extent.

Wind energy has been used to some extent in many countries.

You were always a perfect 'superhuman' to an infuriating extent, and so that 'habit' was actually one of your cute, or rather charming, attributes.

He has come to look like a sly-as-a-fox Premier who uses his position's powers to the fullest extent, to his own advantage.

Snakes are -to a certain extent- deaf, but can still hear very low sounds and are very sensitive to smells.

Words cannot express the extent to which you are wrong.

In any case, the union has to compromise to a certain extent.

Do you love each other to that extent?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

To what extent do you agree or disagree with this definition of success?

After a while, they suddenly started calling her “third wife”; at first it was a joke, but it went on to become a habit, to the extent that seniors and juniors, old and young all used “third wife” as her name. Was this the pivotal moment for disagreement in the family?

He will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

I don't know Spanish, but with the help of a Spanish-German dictionary, I nevertheless understood your letter to some extent.

Let's use our brains to the greatest extent possible and see what happens during the planning stages!

Tom can understand Mary's problem to some extent.

We must give in in some extent if we want to get to an agreement.

A good book can completely absorb your attention, to the extent that you forget your surroundings and even your existence.

In the name of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva, Claudio Soarez Rocha expressed admiration for the continuing effort which Esperanto-speaking people throughout the world are always making, for the greater spread of Esperanto. He wrote, amongst other things,"We know that in the history of mankind, there have been languages that have become intrusive as a result of political power, such as Latin, or to a certain extent French and lately, English. We very much wish, in fact, that one day Esperanto could be accepted by the majority of the nations, as a language adopted to facilitate communication without linguistic privileges."

A man who chooses to commit himself in politics to the extent where he becomes a visible figure, would do himself a favor by not having skeletons in the closet.

To what extent was Igor wrong calling her "mercantile"?

Most of us have, to some extent, experienced being caught in a cycle like this one: Facing the browser, you hit, like you always do, Ctrl-T to open a new tab, type in the first letter of the website you always visit, and hit "enter"... just to see if anything new has happened.

I agree to a certain extent.

Tom speaks French to some extent.

I want to clarify in further research to what extent the conclusions of this paper can be generalized.

To a large extent this is a healthy attitude to have.

Language determines a person's world view to a considerable extent.

All families are, to a greater or lesser extent, dysfunctional.

You are beautiful to such an extent that everyone loves you.

Rising temperatures are reducing ice volume and surface extent on land, lakes, and sea. This loss of ice is expected to continue.

Dan doesn't know the extent of Linda's criminal history.

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.

I can't help but marvel at the extent of human stupidity.

Everyone agreed to a certain extent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fadil might be lying about the extent of his relationship with Layla.

Fadil was responsible to some extent to what happened to Layla.

Fadil was curious to see to what extent Arabic and Hebrew were similar to one another.

Layla's letters revealed the extent of her racism.

It is important to recognize the extent of one's ignorance.

"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."

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.

Sami beat Layla to the extent she was hospitalized.

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.

Language is to a great extent a tool for concealing the truth.

Tom is right to a certain extent.

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.

Since the late 19th century, humans have released an increasing amount of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere through burning fossil fuels and, to a lesser extent, deforestation and land-use change. As a result, the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, the largest contributor to human-caused warming, has increased by about 40% over the industrial era.

Davy winked at Anne, and then, leaning over the table, snatched Dora's first piece of cake, from which she had just taken one dainty little bite, out of her very fingers and, opening his mouth to the fullest extent, crammed the whole slice in.

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