How to Use exigent in a Sentence

exigent

adjective

• Benowitz added that because Edwards is dead, there would not be any exigent circumstances for a search in this case.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• And does the close call give ammunition to the exigent X-Factor calls for Sandy Brondello to be replaced?
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
• The smallest exigent nuclear plant in the world produces 11 megawatts, and even Russia’s new floating power plant makes over 30.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2020
• By running mass spectrometry on one of the site’s exigent 52 stones, the researchers were able to match its trace elements to a site in England where that rock was likely mined.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2020
• Police said exigent circumstances and the fact that the building appeared to be abandoned led them to enter without a warrant.
  — Ngan Ho, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2022
• Cox stressed that, like the cell-site simulator, covert devices can only be used with a court order, or in exigent circumstances.
  — Ivy Scott, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2023
• That theme is developed under more exigent circumstances in the novel’s second part, set in Japan.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• People in exigent circumstances shouldn’t have to contend with such challenges.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2021
• What should be front and center in Air Force decision-making are the nation’s exigent defense interests.
  — Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner, 10 Dec. 2020
• But from his vantage on the evanescent bridge to maturity, So is puzzling out some big questions, ones that might be exigent from different vantages at any age.
  — Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 19 Aug. 2021
• In August 2017, Judge Hamilton ruled that the use of the devices, also known as stingrays, normally require a warrant but that one was not needed in this instance due to exigent circumstances.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
• Both Clinton and Nixon weathered impeachment in their second terms, where the more exigent liability was the final midterm election of their term.
  — Chris Wilson, Time, 1 Oct. 2019
• The opinion, by Justice Thomas, left open the question of whether other rationales, such as exigent circumstances that leave no time to obtain a warrant, might apply when life or safety are at stake.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• The future protesters are picturing must be more exigent simply because the past has already fallen away.
  — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 10 June 2020
• Exceptions will be made for infants and people with exigent health circumstances.
  — al, 26 July 2021
• Pressed for examples, McManus said an exigent circumstance could involve a suspect who threatened to set his or her house on fire or kill family members.
  — Emilie Eaton, ExpressNews.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• The coronavirus pandemic still poses an exigent threat, too.
  — Brianna Milord, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• Depression is a perfectly legitimate subject for fiction, of course, and God knows it’s an exigent aspect of modern life.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
• In general, in such circumstances a warrant is required, although the Supreme Court has held that under certain exigent circumstances, a warrant is not required.
  — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 1 June 2021
• Anything less than that would — bar exigent circumstances — be a disappointment.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2022
• Under the Fourth Amendment, arrests must be supported by a judicial finding of probable cause (in the form of a warrant), absent exigent circumstances (like a bona fide emergency) that were not present here.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 15 Feb. 2017
• What’s been reported about Trump’s decision-making process also suggests that the strike wasn’t driven by exigent circumstances.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2020
• Before that happens, some publishers are clearly kicking up a storm, using the leverage that comes from the prospect of willful infringement damages to put Spotify on the defensive at this exigent moment.
  — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2017
• The expansion of unemployment, initially seen as an exigent backstop, was now portrayed as a golden parachute that encouraged people not to work.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
• This academic year, schools were instructed by the Legislature not to go online, with a requirement that at least four days a week be held in-person unless the four state leaders gave express permission in an exigent circumstance.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Jan. 2022
• Similar exigent circumstances are standard in other city and state policies.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
• The policy required that officers announce their presence prior to entry in all but exigent circumstances.
  — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2022
• For a property to be searched without a warrant there needs to be probable cause and exigent circumstances, for example, entering a home or car when someone's life is at risk or if someone is destroying evidence.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 9 Feb. 2023
• In addition, there can be exigent and unforeseen circumstances.
  — Andy Wright, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• The three exceptions to a public hearing prior to this were all either technical changes (ministerial or non-substantive) or based on time necessity (exigent circumstances).
  — Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024