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How to use the word EXtra in a Sentence?

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Always give yourself that extra push. Too often we become complacent at one stage when life is about growth and elevation to the next.

Tristain Shury

added by choozenboy
6 months ago

In today’s landscape, people are juggling enough hurdles, and having to pay an extra tax to enjoy their favorite bagel with Philly cream cheese should simply not be one of them.

Keenan White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Asthma is regularly triggered by these types of complicated exposures so if you have asthma, it’s really important to be extra careful.

Richard Peltier

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Protect your future self from these uncertainties by prioritizing any extra dollars you have for your emergency fund.

Jesse Mecham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Gramicci’s Loose Tapered pants are the king of hiking bottoms, they’re loose and extra roomy for taking wide strides and going uphill, but they’re cropped and tapered for a stylish look off the trail. I have four pairs in different colors and they’re the most flattering pant I own.

Kevin Cortez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While most people know to use one in their checked luggage, I recommend also putting one in your carry-on bag and personal bag, you can then sync the AirTag with someone you trust. This adds an extra layer of security and allows for that trusted person to immediately know your location, even if you get separated from your phone.

Kristin Lee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are happy with the plan, the transformation plan that they have put forward. It is a very strong bank, i don’t think they will need extra money; if you look at their ratios, they’re fine. And they operate under a strong regulatory regime in Switzerland and in other countries.

Ammar Al Khudairy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I don’t think they will need extra money; if you look at their ratios, they’re fine. And they operate under a strong regulatory regime in Switzerland and in other countries.

Ammar Al Khudairy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I encourage Maine people to stay off the roads if they can, plan for extra time if traveling, and give plenty of space to road crews and first responders working hard to keep us safe.

Janet Mills

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They had already thought they’d paid my fees up to the fourth year with two more years to go. But now, they have to pay for extra three to four years of school fees, so it’s like they are starting all over again. It feels like when they were close to the final point, everything came crashing.

Oyindamola Morenikeji

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you want to keep it minimal, you’ve got to reduce the chaos inside your bag, there are tons of packing cubes on the market, but [some] have nifty hooks that let you hang them up directly, saving time and keeping you extra-organized. I’ve been known to use spare dust bags to achieve a similar effect in a pinch, but once you get the real deal, there’s no going back.

Paige Nichols

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you talk about fairness, it’s a complicated argument, but if you talk to someone who comes from poverty, or someone who’s a person of color, they are going to benefit from the forgiveness program the most because they’re the ones that have to jump through extra financial hoops in order to get where everyone else in the educated country is.

Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But if you talk to someone who comes from poverty, or someone who’s a person of color, they are going to benefit from the forgiveness program the most because they’re the ones that have to jump through extra financial hoops in order to get where everyone else in the educated country is.

Angel Enriquez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Does anyone have any extra graduation tickets? I will buy it off of you.

The Blonde Jon

added by TheBlondeJon
1 year ago

An extra bump occurred in the West region because of lower home prices, while gains in the South were due to stronger job growth in that region.

Lawrence Yun

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would like her to have medication as an option and for it to be reliable, because college will probably be the hardest journey for her with ADHD. you go around with dirty glasses. You get used to it, and you don’t realize that they’re dirty. But when you clean them off, having that extra bit of clarity makes a world of difference.

Clara Pitts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was definitely very ugly and scary but a wonderful reminder of why we’re telling this particular story and how special and powerful art and, particularly, theater can be, and it just made me feel extra, extra grateful to be the one that gets to tell this particular story and to carry on this legacy of Leo Frank.

Ben Platt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our current policies regarding family seating are designed to allow families to sit together without having to pay extra.

American Airlines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I have learned from reading the HAS report and recent press articles, that there were a few lab trainees who were unhappy with my interactions with them. I deeply regret this and would welcome any opportunity to apologize to those impacted. I never intended to make anyone feel uncomfortable and would never want anyone to feel less than 100% happy in my lab, if I am able to run another lab in the future, I will be extra vigilant to make sure that all lab members feel welcome and I will institute measures to uncover potential issues even if they are not brought to my attention. I would also be extra careful about the use of language that might, even if unintentionally, make someone feel less appreciated or uncomfortable in the lab.

David Sabatini

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We didn’t know that our wiring harness for Mach-E was 1.6 kilometers longer than it needed to be. We didn’t know it’s 70 pounds heavier and that that’s [cost an extra] $300 a battery, we didn’t know that we underinvested in braking technology to save on the battery size.

Ford CEO Jim Farley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those funds can be used for housing, for education, for child care, for all sorts of different things, which will help them get back on their feet. And in the end, that’s what we want. We want to make sure that they have extra time, because of the healing process.

Heidi Seevers Gansert

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If we have another summer punctuated by record heat – as we have pretty much every year for the past decade, at least somewhere in the West – then all of that extra vegetation still manages to dry out more or less completely, so, by the end of the summer and the fall, the peak of the dry season, what you then have is a system full of extra vegetation that is just as dry as it would have been.

Daniel Swain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you are using a standard detergent, be sure to give the jacket an extra rinse cycle to ensure a residue-free garment.

Corey Simpson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The important thing, however, was to create a way to refuel, there had been a lot of experiments up to this point with aerial refueling, but there really was no way to modify a Cessna 172 to be refueled in midair. So they set up an extra tank that could be filled from a truck on the ground. When they needed to refuel, they would come down and fly very low and just above stall speed, then the truck came along and winched up a hose and then used a pump to transfer the fuel into the airplane. It really was a dramatic show of airmanship, because they had to do it at night sometimes and that required some precision flying.

Janet Bednarek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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