Examples of 'drastic' in a sentence
Meaning of "drastic"
Drastic (adjective): Severe, extreme, or intense in effect or action. This term is used to describe significant or substantial changes, measures, or consequences that have a powerful impact on a situation or condition
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- Having a strong or far-reaching effect; extreme, severe.
- Acting rapidly or violently.
- A powerful, fast-acting purgative medicine.
How to use "drastic" in a sentence
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He agreed with me that a drastic remedy was necessary.
Such a drastic option is therefore not recommended.
The whole model is in drastic need of revision.
A drastic cut in emissions required drastic measures.
I will do something drastic if you break my heart.
Drastic situations call for drastic measures.
Avoid locations with drastic temperature fluctuations.
Drastic improvements are required in terms of their accommodation.
We are aware of the drastic social consequences of this.
Drastic times call for drastic measures.
Can not expect a drastic change overnight.
No drastic reforms in early retirement schemes are foreseen.
The shooting leads to a drastic reform of security.
Pretty drastic step to settle a custody dispute.
I saw immediately that drastic measures were needed.
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These drastic steps are backed up by additional measures.
Animal bones demonstrate drastic change in vegetation.
The drastic changes personality and voice.
Warwick needed a drastic plan to save them.
Drastic action was needed to prevent ethnic cleansing.
So you took drastic action on your own.
Drastic times calls for drastic measures.
It means we need a drastic change in our direction.
Drastic action in the event of any disturbance.
We got to get drastic with these planes.
Drastic changes occurring in the land of faerie.
We have seen drastic changes since then.
Drastic enough to let the public know.
It also seeks drastic measures against crime.
Drastic operating economies were put in place.
Ravenscroft made drastic alterations to the play.
A drastic decline in growth in the housing market.
The government undertook a drastic reform of parliament.
A less drastic measure is a family supervision order.
I still had to do very drastic staff reductions.
Your drastic measures have exceeded expectations.
Meade may have to take drastic steps.
A change this drastic does not happen overnight.
Existing systems also prohibited drastic changes.
It got so drastic he just could not function.
I did not mean to imply anything as drastic as that.
You prefer drastic measures to rational ones.
And the stories he told me were quite drastic.
Nothing drastic will happen to the store.
He had to have experienced a drastic computer malfunction.
Cutting it off and dyeing it is pretty drastic.
There is drastic and then there is this.
This calls for some drastic measures.
Let me finish suturing before we do something drastic.
It will require drastic changes in your life.
