How to Use in situ in a Sentence

in situ

adverb or adjective
  • But here's the catch: The mirror would have to be made in situ.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 18 July 2019
  • 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
  • Part of that was photographing their new A220s in situ.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • 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
  • 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 Veroneses in the Louvre show us, in this sense, more historical truth than a Veronese in situ in Venice might.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Most of the best is made here: take a tour of the Montelobos distillery to sample it in situ, or try it at one of the new local bars.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Sep. 2018
  • First, the researchers must test it in situ with animal subjects.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2020
  • Melanoma in situ means that a tumor has not invaded beyond the outer layer of the skin.
    Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 23 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Haines would work in miniature (scale: 1 inch to 1 foot) and photograph his pieces in situ for online viewing.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Abigail Perez was diagnosed with melanoma in situ, or stage zero melanoma, in 2019.
    Magdalene Taylor, Allure, 26 May 2021
  • But that doesn't give scientists much insight into how the structure works in situ.
    Grace Huckins, Wired, 12 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • The precise reasons for this remain a mystery to scientists, who are eager to make in situ measurements of the far side of the Moon.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • In November 2019, the family moved in and has spent quarantine in situ.
    Alexandra Lange, ELLE Decor, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The engraved sandstone boulder in this case—found during rock art surveys—was studied in situ and dated to around 8,000 years ago.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2024
  • Four minutes later, as the game was settling into its pattern, there was Ronaldo again, in situ on the substitutes’ bench, in the center of the screen.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Others scanned books on Indian art to build a repository of idols in situ.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Lasik — short for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis — eliminates the need for glasses by reshaping the cornea, the clear round dome that covers the front of the eye.
    Author: Roni Caryn Rabin, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2018
  • 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
  • Most Deutsche employees are required to work three days in the office while managing directors need to be in situ four days a week.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 18 June 2024
  • For that, much stronger evidence is needed, the kind that can only be gathered by a mission to study the Venusian atmosphere in situ.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2021
  • His team analyzed the geochemical fingerprint of the 52 sarsens that remain in situ at the ancient site.
    Franz Lidz New York Times, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • All these world powers want to be the first to discover water ice on the satellite in situ – in its original state – and not as a result of orbital data.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The wreck will remain in situ, and nobody will be allowed to remove any artifacts from inside the restricted area.
    Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2024
  • Mars in a lab There is just one problem with these ideas: since humans have not landed on Mars (yet), there are no in situ observations of these phenomena, only images and data beamed back from spacecraft.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2024

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