EXIGENCY in a Sentence

Learn EXIGENCY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for EXIGENCY, such as:

1. The people have to accept the harsh exigency of war.
2. In this exigency, we must look for aid from our allies.
3. The troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of combat.
4. One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber.
5. I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXIGENCY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
exigency
 n.  urgent situation; state or quality of requiring much effort or immediate action
Classic Sentence:
1  I learned, there, that he had gone to Lowestoft, to meet some sudden exigency of ship-repairing in which his skill was required; but that he would be back tomorrow morning, in good time.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
2  Mina took a growing interest in everything and I was rejoiced to see that the exigency of affairs was helping her to forget for a time the terrible experience of the night.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
4  Power was indeed given him to determine by himself what measures the exigency demanded; to do what he had to do without consultation; and to punish without appeal.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXXIV.
5  In this mongrel society thrown together by the exigencies of the political situation, there was but one thing in common.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
6  The troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of combat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
Example Sentence:
1  In this exigency, we must look for aid from our allies.
2  I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.
3  The people have to accept the harsh exigency of war.