How to Use in extremis in a Sentence

in extremis

adverb
  • They are helping a family in extremis.
  • Her game face and mental resilience were top-notch as both games were played in extremis.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 15 July 2023
  • They were all women trained to deal with human beings in extremis.
    — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Two days later, the patient’s daughter calls; her father is in extremis.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Here, a cruise story (in extremis) that relates these unique dynamics.
    — Jack Fowler, National Review, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Even in extremis, Szymborska knew, life persists on its own terms and must be honored.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Signals of surrender have been spotted rather than the usual screaming at his team in extremis.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • From pop to blues to prog and arena rock, art in extremis emerges as a theme in a raft of recent Rhino releases.
    — Darryn King, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Taken together, these three books suggest that universal truths, even in extremis, are elusive.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 5 July 2017
  • But even in extremis, business leaders might want to consider whether a layoff is truly unavoidable.
    — Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • But the Darién Gap is the global migration story in extremis.
    — Jason Motlagh, Outside Online, 19 July 2016
  • 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
  • Under the wrong conditions transformers can become less efficient or even, in extremis, blow up.
    — The Economist, 4 June 2020
  • Who would deny people in extremis the opportunity to conclude their lives without pain?
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 13 Mar. 2020
  • Video projections are sparingly introduced to give us close-ups of characters in extremis.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 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
  • Their lyrical soliloquies may find their characters in extremis.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Twice normal, a pulse of 180 usually signifies a patient in extremis.
    — Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • As politics and love converge, the film traces a journey marked by resilience, heartbreak, and the impossible choices forced upon women in extremis.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • Obama’s decision to use airstrikes only in extremis virtually ensured defeat.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020

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