in extremis

Example Sentences

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Cline’s last novel, “The Girls,” was a psychological portrait of women in a Manson-like cult, and she brings the same perception and sensitivity to young women in extremis to this new work of fiction.

From New York Times

There’s little doubt Mr. Biden was reluctant to take this step, and did so in extremis.

From Washington Post

She spends much of her segment in extremis: absorbing a medical trauma, howling to save her life, ferally masticating arugula in some kind of furious fugue state.

From Los Angeles Times

“In fact, the presence of this scene identifies Tutankhamun’s tomb as the burial place of that predecessor, and that it was within her outer chambers that the young king had, in extremis, been buried.”

From New York Times

Accordingly, the Navy I love is in an in extremis situation.

From Washington Post