Sample Sentences forexigency (auto-selected)
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Her calm demeanor in the face of the exigency reassured everyone.exigency = urgent situation
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The hospital adapted to the exigency by calling in off-duty personnel.
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Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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That's a temporary exigency, Manuel, one we can cope with.† (source)
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T S. Eliot, in "The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917), has his neurotic, timorous main character say he was never cut out to be Prince Hamlet, that the most he could be is an extra, someone who could come on to fill out the numbers onstage or possibly be sacrificed to plot exigency.† (source)
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The exigencies of war.† (source)
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Madeline explained to her the exigency of the situation.† (source)
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In such an exigence, my uncle's advice and assistance would be everything in the world; he will immediately comprehend what I must feel, and I rely upon his goodness.† (source)
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Despite the exigencies of the situation, Saladin insisted that her face be properly veiled during her questioning.† (source)
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Another of her principles was that parents should never (at least visibly) interfere with the plans of their married children; and the difficulty of adjusting this respect for May's independence with the exigency of Mr. Welland's claims could be overcome only by the exercise of an ingenuity which left not a second of Mrs. Welland's own time unprovided for.† (source)
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Part Fourth AT SHASTON "Whoso prefers either Matrimony or other Ordinance before the Good of Man and the plain Exigence of Charity, let him profess Papist, or Protestant, or what he will, he is no better than a Pharisee."† (source)
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My imagination, sternly checked by the exigencies of my profession, waxed secretly to colossal force.† (source)
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One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal chamber.† (source)
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One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety; it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.† (source)
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She would never have arrived at this eminence so early in life had not the exigencies of war and the demands of the commissary department on Tara made it impossible for Ellen to spare Mammy or Dilcey or even Rosa or Teena.† (source)
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