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In severe cases, cracks can form or it can snap apart.

There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.

The stages of psychosexual development—oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital—turn out to be one big Freudian slip, betraying severe anal retention on the part of the taxonomist.

Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.

Happy him who with ease can steer, from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.

A cute kitten can make a giggling mess even out of the most severe übermensch.

Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.

This is a ​school for ​children with severe ​learning difficulties. In ​parts of ​Africa there is a severe ​food/​water ​shortage. There is ​expected to be a severe ​frost ​tonight. Severe ​cutbacks in ​public ​spending have been ​announced.

My condition is so severe that I have to go to hospital. The severe winter killed all of our farm animals.

20 patients suffered from severe side effects. These effects were caused by medicines not connected with the study.

However, he is very severe to those pupils who do not want to study and dislikes those who are arrogant and conceited.

I burned my hand in the hot water. It was pretty severe, so I went to the hospital.

Stalls also can occur at unusually high speeds in severe turbulence or in low level wind shear

My most grievous fault.

You know Grievous Bodily Harm? Just how bad do the injuries have to be before it counts as Grievous?

Get serious.

A new study suggests that hospital records for patients older than 65 are often incorrect, which may lead to serious treatment errors.

I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.

Just one look at the amusing dispenser, colorful animal tiles, two-sided bingo cards, and transparent monkey chips and you know you're in for some serious fun.

The current rate is about one airplane crash every two weeks, measuring all serious accidents to all types of transport jets.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

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I know, said Al-Sayib, getting a new bottle of Fanta. "This is serious business. So why'd you call?"

Gestural language had, however, serious limitations, since it could not be used in the dark or at distance.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

My companions were watching me in silence and, unlike other times when my wonder had made them laugh, they remained serious.

Hey, we're trying to have a serious discussion here so I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't butt in so irresponsibly.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

How can one be serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous!

You're not a serious mathematician unless you crumple up a piece of paper in frustration every twenty minutes, look off into space, and appear to be questioning your very existence.