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
  • 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
  • The board declared financial exigency in the face of the 41% cut.
    — Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2020
  • You logical minds cannot understand the exigencies of art.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • The point there is that O’Brien is no stranger to the exigencies of pressure as felt at the Breeders’.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • There are economic exigencies to putting up a show on Broadway and keeping it running.
    — Rebecca Milzoff, Billboard, 2 May 2025
  • Even amid wartime exigencies, Ukrainians maintain a robust insistence on the rule of law.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Nov. 2025
  • 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 exigencies of war are many and terrifying, leaving suffering on all sides.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • It will be encumbered neither by norms nor the exigencies that compel speech in a democratic society.
    — Casey Ryan Kelly, The Conversation, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The exigencies of climate change and political and class divides have become more alarming, and the mood less frivolous.
    — Heller McAlpin, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The bill would declare a state of financial exigency for five years, or until the university’s finances are stable.
    — Kathryn Muchnick, Louisville Courier Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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 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 predicament illustrates the exigency of the deepening refugee crisis.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Economic exigencies are often more urgent than a deference to the past, but Little Tokyo is trying to have it both ways.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The shift back toward extended families is due to the exigency of post-bubble America.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2012
  • Like any pilgrimage, a journey to the Berg imposes certain exigencies.
    — Roxana Robinson, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2020
  • This discovery was not enough to survive the exigencies of the Washington real estate market.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
  • Some point to the exigencies of great-power competition to justify a pilgrimage to Riyadh.
    — Dalia Dassa Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 3 June 2022
  • 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
  • However, through the exigencies of war, Ukrainians have become more productive than ever.
    — James K. Glassman, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The likelihood of success in a second round of talks increases with the political exigencies and condition of those at the table.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The business of government is driven by the exigencies of holding together fragile coalitions.
    — The Economist, 7 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Vermont, America’s second-whitest state (after Maine), has taken that exigency to heart.
    — The Economist, 11 Apr. 2021

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