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How to use urge in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Urge means a strong desire to do something. Example: “After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.”

Examples of urge by meaning

nounA strong desire to do something.

  • After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.
  • repress your urges
  • satisfy your urges

verbTo press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

  • A new power urges our ships independently of wind and tide.1922, Holbrook Jackson, “Ships and the Sea”, in Occasions, page 128
  • We will continue to investigate and the USDOT urges all states to revoke illegally issued CDLs.2025 November 14, Sam Stevenson, “California To Revoke Thousands of Driver’s Licenses”, in Newsweek

verbTo put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

  • My boss urged me to reconsider my decision to leave the company, even offering a pay rise.

verbTo present in an urgent manner; to insist upon.

  • to urge an argument; to urge the necessity of a case

verbTo treat with forcible means; to take severe or violent measures with.

  • to urge an ore with intense heat

More sentences with urge

  • But since I love some of you, I urge you again to take heed of my warning.From the entry take heed
  • She bit down on the urge to strike the woman who had wronged her.From the entry bite down
  • The teacher urged the students to do a manual check, because some errors aren't picked up by the spell checker.From the entry manual
  • We urge the exercise of patience and restraint.From the entry exercise
  • The police urged the gunman to lay down his weapon.From the entry lay down
  • She got the uncontrollable urge for some chocolate.From the entry uncontrollable
  • He sighed, stifled his urge to snuff out the moron who designed this work process, and got back to work.From the entry snuff out
  • He fought down the urge to laugh.From the entry fight down
  • My tax return has to be completed today, but I feel a sudden urge to tidy my sock drawer.From the entry tidy one's sock drawer
  • The urge to clear my throat was suppressible, but the urge to sneeze wasn't, and so I made a large noise in the middle of the solo.From the entry suppressible
  • It comes just days before Freedom Day, with ministers urging everyone to get double jabbed.2021 July 14, Ellie Cambridge, “Two-thirds of British adults now double jabbed as Boris beats Freedom Day target”, in The Sun. From the entry double-jabbed
  • I would urge you to resist anything overtly 'baby-ish' for your changing bag.2021, Jen Gale, The Sustainable(ish) Guide to Green Parenting: Guilt-free Eco-ideas for Raising Your Kids, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry changing bag
  • Hopefully he unfights the urge and goes nowhere near jake bc Jake doesn't like him.2021 December 2, @lipasxo, Twitter, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2024. From the entry unfight
  • The urge to scream, “Get a thesaurus and find some real words” was overwhelming.2021 July 21, AGEIST. From the entry MFEO
  • The urges are hard to overcome, but, I assure you, you're safe with me.2020 December 23, Raven Steele, A Monster's Birth, Raven Steele. From the entry freak
  • I can now control my faps and I don't feel urges.2020 July 8, u/LeifErikss, “I will NEVER fap again! (NOFAP FOREVER)”, in Reddit, r/NoFap, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2023. From the entry faps
  • In Klüver-Bucy syndrome the victim develops urges to eat and fornicate indiscriminately.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 81. From the entry Klüver-Bucy syndrome
  • Agents Association, Brian O’Hare, urged Congress “to make domestic terrorism a federal crime.2019 August 7, Charlie Savage, quoting Brian O’Hare, “What Could a Domestic Terrorism Law Do?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry domestic terrorism
  • The AJC urged Warner Bros. to add a disclaimer to the movie.2019 December 10, Marianne Garvey, “‘Richard Jewell’ film under fire for depiction of journalist Kathy Scruggs”, in CNN. From the entry AJC
  • McGahn described the president’s fury toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr.2018 August 18, Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman, “White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in Mueller Inquiry”…. From the entry investigation
  • His article urges people not to be “afraid” of being charged with confirming Godwin's law.2018, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry Godwin's law
  • He had always had to repress the urge to pinprick her enthusiasms.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry pinprick
  • This entails jettisoning, as I urge in this book, brainist and neuroist assumptions and perspectives.2017, Sal Restivo, Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy, →ISBN. From the entry brainist
  • Took Dutch leave from school whenever an urge to go fishing came upon me.2017, Frank Belknap Long, Mission to a Distant Star, page 128. From the entry Dutch leave
  • Just beware of basorexia — the sudden urge to kiss someone.2017, How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe, London: John Murray Learning, →ISBN, page 85. From the entry basorexia
  • Nay, give me leave,— I urge, from your own grant, it has not been.2016 February 2, John Dryden, The works of John Dryden, Vol.7: Top English Literature (Top English Literature), VM eBooks. From the entry nay
  • But I rarely entertain an urge to either pile on or argue back.2016, Chuck Eddy, “’10s”, in Terminated for Reasons of Taste: Other Ways to Hear Essential and Inessential Music, Durham, N.C.: Duke…. From the entry headstart
  • They urge the existence of 'observatives' as specific speech acts that are conceptual, but not necessarily propositional.2014, J. Peregrin, Inferentialism: Why Rules Matter. From the entry observative
  • You were urged to keep status quo, shut your mouth, and go along with the flow.2014, Art Crews, Judy Burleigh-Crews, We Made ’Em Look Good, page 76. From the entry duck or no dinner
  • So, if you get the urge to debate him about fossils or flowers . . . don't.”2012, David Mack, Star Trek: Vanguard: Storming Heaven. From the entry xenobotany
  • He had a sudden urge to laugh, to screech with laughter, to guffaw.2012 [1987], Rupert Thomson, Dreams of Leaving, reprint edition, A&C Black, →ISBN. From the entry spadeloads
  • Shame!’), could trigger an urge for retribution regardless of her intention.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin 2012, page 610. From the entry actus reus

Meaning of urge

  1. noun A strong desire to do something.
  2. verb To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.
  3. verb To put mental pressure on; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity.

Full definition of urge

Questions about urge in a sentence

How do you use urge in a sentence?
Urge is used as a noun and verb. For example: “After seeing the advert for a soft drink, I had a sudden urge to buy a bottle.”
What is a short sentence with urge?
“repress your urges”
What does urge mean?
Urge means a strong desire to do something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urge (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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