How to Use in extremis in a Sentence

in extremis

adverb

• They are helping a family in extremis.
• Archival D&G pieces from the ’80s and ’90s are popular at the moment; the sacred and the profane resonate in a world in extremis.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 10 July 2022
• After the Appalachian Trail, which was indeed one long booze cruise, my body and brain hurt in extremis for months.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
• This is a classic Schrader study of the male soul in extremis, seen with a bracing new clarity.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• And if that is still not enough, Democrats in extremis may concede that Mueller could retire with his minor scalps, and both sides then could call it quits, even-steven.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 13 Feb. 2018
• They were all women trained to deal with human beings in extremis.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
• The dogwood out back is curling up, the azaleas are in extremis, and the maple leaves are brown-tinged with environmental stress.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• Two days later, the patient’s daughter calls; her father is in extremis.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
• And that means determining how to help host-nation forces without having to put our troops on the front lines, except in extremis.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
• But the Darién Gap is the global migration story in extremis.
  — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
• Iran may in extremis also stage terrorist attacks in Europe and the U.S.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
• This work led to the first sophisticated 2-D model of a giant star in extremis — and this time, the model star exploded.
  — Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014
• But even in extremis, the antimask brigade were fully committed to their rejection of science, and of the common good.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Jan. 2021
• Nor drinking, either: the 6.2-liter pushrod V8 is fitted with dual fuel systems to pump more gas into the cylinders in extremis.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2018
• Here, a cruise story (in extremis) that relates these unique dynamics.
  — Jack Fowler, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
• This, though, would be a nuclear option: one that America is likely to take only in extremis.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Scarcity is also context dependent, in a desert, where water is scarce, no amount of gold nor bitcoin can buy water in extremis.
  — Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
• On the left side of the screen Zama lies, in extremis, in the bottom of a canoe, while the right side of the screen is occupied by a vertical ribbon of vividly green vegetation as the boat slips through a mangrove swamp.
  — WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
• Unbeknownst to its citizens and the world at large, the Soviet Union in 1986 was in extremis, poised for a collapse that would come only five years after the Chernobyl disaster.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2019
• The result would be no mere picture but a trove of pixels against which to test our ideas about gravity, relativity and the behavior of matter in extremis.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Thirteen Lives reminds me of Ron Howard's Apollo 13 for its bristly character moments, people caught in extremis.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• Maybe one in which a man is imprisoned in a bedroom where he is forced to work, in extremis, while constantly worrying that the creature randomly killing people in the outside world might wind up killing him?
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Second place in that category goes to general surgeons, who may reasonably be in a hurry to get to a patient in extremis.
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2020
• For a period of two years, the customary ban was lifted for museums that found themselves in extremis, unable to care for their collections.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• Twice normal, a pulse of 180 usually signifies a patient in extremis.
  — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
• But even in extremis, business leaders might want to consider whether a layoff is truly unavoidable.
  — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
• The grand design of this more than 7½-hour work is revealed only through the gradual movement of the minds of the characters, who are flailing in extremis for a path out of abandonment, betrayal, bad faith and overwhelming terror.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 29 May 2018
• Who would deny people in extremis the opportunity to conclude their lives without pain?
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Mar. 2020
• Under the wrong conditions transformers can become less efficient or even, in extremis, blow up.
  — The Economist, 4 June 2020
• Fortunately, the show doesn’t leave its characters (or the audience) in extremis but comes back around with a hopeful moral: Facing reality hurts a lot but is the only path to forgiveness.
  — Margaret Gray, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024