How to Use exigency in a Sentence

exigency

noun

• The spirit was rarely any match for the exigencies of clay, metal, stone, or oil paint.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
• The board declared financial exigency in the face of the 41% cut.
  — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2020
• The project, once conceived as a book, came with exigencies.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2017
• The very skills that made Ells so successful as a founder were not compatible with the new exigencies.
  — James R. Bailey, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2017
• On the Jersey Shore boardwalk, the U.S. students who are working for an hourly wage acknowledge the new exigencies with a nod.
  — Time, 29 June 2017
• The exigencies have turned a cool position into a hot seat.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
• There’s a certain exigency with production that has to be met — and not everybody gets it.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
• On the Origin of Species was very weak indeed) were rooted in the exigencies that confronted the makers of arguments.
  — Yuval Levin, National Review, 31 Dec. 2019
• The task of Thomas’s White Constitution is to re-create the conditions that made for black survival, to undo the culture of rights and replace it with a state of exigency.
  — Theodore Kupfer, National Review, 22 Aug. 2019
• Yet a reckoning with the reality of our changing earth must also come to terms with the exigencies of language.
  — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
• The harsh exigencies of life in suburbs of Paris and Brussels have more power to convince than do even the most rational pleas to renounce violence.
  — Philip Seib, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2017
• Longevity Insurance’ As all of the above suggests, even a substantial nest egg may not be able to cover all the exigencies of a blessedly long life.
  — Chris Taylor, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2017
• Barriers of language, culture, religion and even species would be dissolved in the exigency of a moment no one knew how long might last.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
• Leaving most of the museum empty was an economic and military exigency, but the curators have made the most of it by leaving a door open at the end.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2022
• The hope was that, after the exigencies of the state’s early years had been settled, the Basic Laws would eventually amount to a formal constitution.
  — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2023
• The exigencies of the time meant that the buildings went up faster than their performance could be assessed—or than improvements to their design could be implemented.
  — Ian Volner, The Atlantic, 19 June 2017
• The exigencies of war are many and terrifying, leaving suffering on all sides.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The research Goldberg conducted for the series didn’t involve mob lore or the exigencies of crushing someone’s windpipe.
  — Jim Ruland, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Here was art that, in its dazzlingly unorthodox approach to form and aesthetics, could mimic and even embody the exigencies of real life.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• The predicament illustrates the exigency of the deepening refugee crisis.
  — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
• This discovery was not enough to survive the exigencies of the Washington real estate market.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• Companies are often competing for them, instead of the other way around, and that, combined with the exigencies of the time they were born into, lends a certain empowerment.
  — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• The shift back toward extended families is due to the exigency of post-bubble America.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2012
• Instead, Xi will make a political determination as to what works best, given the exigencies of the moment and his own long-term strategy and goals.
  — chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The Pearl Harbor attack occurred in the fifth month of a six-month commercial television test, and war exigencies have cut television broadcasting from 15 hours weekly to four.
  — Johnny Miller, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
• That contradiction can be explained in part by exigency; whatever its moral bent, early America was short on revenue and long on the need for public works.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• Under financial exigency, for instance, UA would have to provide tenured faculty with 60 days’ notice of a layoff instead of one year.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2019
• The Framers promulgated the Bill of Rights precisely to inhibit Congress from curtailing fundamental rights in the name of this or that exigency.
  — WSJ, 1 July 2018
• In each of these stories, the restaurant kitchen is a site where class concerns intersect, where the friction between the consumer’s demands for gratification and the needs of the laborer who is appeasing those exigencies comes to a head.
  — Mayukh Sen, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
• All the hardships that a winter storm typically delivers were compounded and complicated by the exigencies of war.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024