How to Use exigent in a Sentence

exigent

adjective

• Then an old-timer hoarse and exigent with years bugled like a braying donkey.
  — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
• 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
• There may be no higher and more exigent emergency facing the State of Texas than this.
  — Giles Hudson, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
• Fairies and gods and shipwrecks all conspire to put our players in the most exigent but also the most amusing circumstances.
  — Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
• People in exigent circumstances shouldn’t have to contend with such challenges.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2021
• Exceptions will be made for infants and people with exigent health circumstances.
  — al, 26 July 2021
• 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
• There are a few, such as consent searches and exigent circumstances where someone is in danger or evidence is about to be destroyed.
  — John E. Jones, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Anything less than that would — bar exigent circumstances — be a disappointment.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Jan. 2022
• That theme is developed under more exigent circumstances in the novel’s second part, set in Japan.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Similar exigent circumstances are standard in other city and state policies.
  — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022
• In addition, there can be exigent and unforeseen circumstances.
  — Andy Wright, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• But lawmakers usually do so only under exigent circumstances, such as a court order.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2026
• Officers are told not to fire at moving vehicles except in exigent circumstances that could result in the death of a civilian or an officer.
  — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 22 June 2026
• Officers enter without a warrant, citing exigent circumstances based on the tip from R that his siblings were still inside the home.
  — Samantha Wanderer, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2024
• 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
• So many hours talking about basketball coaches… and remote professors, and exigent editors.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
• The policy required that officers announce their presence prior to entry in all but exigent circumstances.
  — CBS News, 5 Feb. 2022
• The subject does not have a lot of hard-and-fast rules; wars share common characteristics but each conflict has its own peculiarities and exigent circumstances.
  — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
• 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
• Mishkin also wasn’t persuaded there were exigent circumstances to warrant shortening the 15-day window.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
• The researchers expected single people to lower their standards given the exigent circumstances.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 6 July 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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