How to Use in situ in a Sentence

in situ

adverb or adjective
  • It also couldn’t be repaired in situ.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The device is a fast way to charge a phone in situ and is available in black and white.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
  • This is very important for us, as it has been preserved in situ.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Debris on the gallery floor indicates that the twin panels were wrecked in situ.
    — Michaëla De Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2026
  • But much of the care, such as taking blood samples, can be done in situ with the help of the husbandry staff.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • First, the researchers must test it in situ with animal subjects.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2020
  • Against a background of learning, characters are shaped in situ.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Early work is open-ended and in situ—ride-alongs, field checks, and dialogues at the farm.
    — Stephen Wunker, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • But that doesn't give scientists much insight into how the structure works in situ.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The cells lining the milk ducts turn malignant (cancerous) but stay in place (in situ).
    — Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 10 Sep. 2024
  • But that’s all in electricity, which has limited use in situ.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 1 May 2026
  • Melanoma in situ means that a tumor has not invaded beyond the outer layer of the skin.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The designer and her team will be in situ to welcome customers and take measurements.
    — Alex Wynne, Footwear News, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Like most spacecraft that venture out into the cosmos, Webb wasn't designed to be fixed in situ.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Many of them required Mobarak to perform the translation process in situ.
    — Mariana Fernández, ARTnews.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • That could mean that large debris from the outer solar system migrated in to form Ceres in situ.
    — John Wenz, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2016
  • Others scanned books on Indian art to build a repository of idols in situ.
    — Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The coating was built using in situ reconstruction.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The most common methods for cleaning up oil spills are dispersing, in situ burning or skimming.
    — Anna Diamond, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
  • Low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ, a common type of breast cancer, is one such disease.
    — David Ropeik, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The spacecraft could fly through and sample the plumes before landing on the moon’s surface to perform in situ studies.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2022
  • One possibility is to build a complex at the site so that the mosaic can remain in situ.
    — George Nelson For Artnews, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Still in situ and able to locally -- help locally as discussed, along with your bureau colleagues.
    — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
  • The bridges over the Rhone are unusually low, so the top floor of the building had to be constructed in situ.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • For those who want to take a closer look at the find, researchers have created a 3-D model of the coins in situ.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2022
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ occurs when cancer cells line the ducts in the chest but have not spread to other tissue.
    — Doha Madani, NBC news, 10 June 2026
  • Most of the best is made here—take a tour of the Montelobos distillery to sample it in situ, or try one of the new local bars in town.
    — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The food pictured here is perfectly in situ, showing hands, dogs, aprons, and of course, wine, alongside tempting dishes.
    — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2018
  • Abigail Perez was diagnosed with melanoma in situ, or stage zero melanoma, in 2019.
    — Magdalene Taylor, Allure, 26 May 2021
  • The scale of this in situ production will be staggering if the colony is truly to be considered self-sufficient.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023

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