How to use urgency in a sentence

Examples of urgency by meaning

More sentences with urgency

• Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.From the entry inject
• Because of their urgency the agent will air-freight the parts.From the entry air-freight
• Because of their urgency, the agent air-freights the parts.From the entry air-freights
• Because of their urgency, the agent air-freighted the parts.From the entry air-freighted
• Because of their urgency, the agent is air-freighting the parts.From the entry air-freighting
• But “Funeral for Justice,” due May 3, amps up the urgency in his work.2024 April 22, Ben Sisario, “Mdou Moctar’s Guitar Is a Screaming Siren Against Africa’s Colonial Legacy”, in The New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry cri de coeur
• I think it’s a reality that has to inform the urgency with which we approach those issues.”2021 May 10, Ian Prasad Philbrick, quoting Brian Fallon, “‘We May Not Have a Full Two Years’: Democrats’ Plans Hinge on Good Health”, in…. From the entry uncouth
• Judge George Daniels on Wednesday said the worsening coronavirus pandemic provided more urgency.2020 July 29, Priscilla Alvarez, “Judge blocks administration from implementing ‘public charge’ rule for immigrants during pandemic”, in CNN. From the entry daniels
• They are adaptive measures, and indicators of the increasing difficulty, and urgency, of urbanized social control.2006, Stan Goff, Sex and War. From the entry policification
• Their energy is fueled by a sense of urgency that is lacking in youth.2004 June 15, Abigail Trafford, “Nancy Reagan’s Second Act”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN…. From the entry Indian summer
• McCourtney, however, recognizes the need for more urgency in these euphoric days of dot.com stock offerings.2000 April 3, Robert Lenzner, “Personality Change”, in Forbes, retrieved 07 Apr 2015. From the entry fast times
• Urgency clause read and adopted, bill passed, and ordered transmissed to the Assembly.1999, California. Legislature. Senate, Journal of the Senate, Legislature of the State of California, page 4976. From the entry transmiss
• Both projects have reached a point of urgency, thoughbeit, for somewhat different reasons.1977 March, “Environmental Impact Statement”, in Raleigh-Durham Airport Expansion and Improvements, page 14. From the entry thoughbeit
• As soon as it becomes doctrine, the religious does not have absolute urgency.1975, Howard V. Hong, Edna H. Hong (translators), Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers, volume 4, page 296. From the entry actuosity
• Toong Cheong spoke more rapidly now, and urgency and embarrassment reduced his speech to essential semantemes.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 53. From the entry semanteme
• They were really concerned about forestry and logging in their area, and there was a sense of urgency.2025 May 5, “Bill M211 — Zero-Emission Vehicles Repeal Act (continued)”, in Official Report of Debates (Hansard), page 2125. From the entry 'Na̱mg̱is
• However, being aro adds another layer of urgency.2021, Izzy, "Live While We're Young: Aromantic Frienships, Youth and Futures", CAMP Magazine (University of Melbourne), Volume 4 (2021)…. From the entry allo
• Ambition and self-improvement are certainly not negatives, although one potential downside to being more self-conscious—especially for punk bands—is muted urgency.2017 January 20, Annie Zaleski, “AFI sounds refreshed and rejuvenated on its 10th album, AFI (The Blood Album)”, in The Onion AV Club…. From the entry self-improvement
• Auden poem that is read with the urgency and the rhythm of the piston on a steam engine.2014, Tom Zoellner, Train: Riding the Rails That Created the Modern World, →ISBN. From the entry proto-rap
• The visitors began to hold a much higher line, passing and moving with greater urgency, and their reward was forthcoming.2011 October 1, David Ornstein, “Blackburn 0 – 4 Man City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2019. From the entry forthcoming
• The Šāh had always particularly feared assassination and his concern for his dynasty now added new urgency to that fear.2004, “Réforme Pa Le Haut, Réforme Par Le Bas”, in Oriente Moderno, page 200. From the entry šāh
• This is a tall order but one of extreme urgency.1947 November, ““Dear Chairman Weichel”: An Open Letter to Chairman Weichel of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine Suggesting a…. From the entry tall order
• And it is that whitelash, the likes of which we have yet to see fully, that drives home the fierce urgency of now.2017, George Yancy, On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry whitelash
• Rather, in representing the passéist 'nightmare' that haunts the progressive artists, it affirms the urgency of society's Futurist renewal that is to follow.2012, The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod: Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-century Italy. From the entry passéist
• Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now.2008 June 20, David Brooks, “The Two Obamas”, in New York Times. From the entry speechifier
• There hadn't been such a sense of united urgency in the Puzzle Palace since Dixon had ordered the bombings in the Middle East.2008, Eddy Shah, Second World, page 110. From the entry Puzzle Palace
• Savingrams were used where there was not sufficient urgency to necessitate telegrams and they were sent in the same way as despatches.1995, Anne Thurston, Sources for Colonial Studies in the Public Record Office, →ISBN. From the entry savingram
• The slicing cucumbers' production systems are geared to be first on the market, whereas for the picklers this urgency is not so great.1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, page 520. From the entry pickler
• Each character comes to us with her own particular fix on reality, shaped by a lifetime of experience and by the urgencies of the moment.1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9. From the entry fix
• In cases of extreme urgency, St.1963, Lesley Diack, Labrador Nurse, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, page 91. From the entry sched
• Indeed, many commentators observed that such an ‘anthropo-pause’, however tragic and unintended, impressed on billions of people the urgency of finding alternative paths of ecological globalization.2024, Manfred B. Steger, Globalization in the 21st Century, page 174. From the entry anthropopause
• He encouraged seeing hunger firsthand by volunteering at shelters and talking about it to keep the issue at the forefront as a matter of "moral urgency.".2023 September 19, Solcyre Burga, “'We Can Do It': Celebrity Chef Andrew Zimmern on Finding the Will to Solve Hunger”, in Time, New York…. From the entry incumbent
• It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence.2020 October 13, Peter Bradshaw, “Soul review – Pixar's rapturous tale of a jazz nut on a surreal out-of-body journey”, in The Guardian. From the entry head-spinning
• Entering the elevator once again there is now a sense of urgency about us as we franticly mount our search for defense, this now being our first priority.2017 May 22, R. A. Rios, The Flash Point Project: The world has changed by the twenty second century, but not all is what we would have…. From the entry franticly
• While they were drinking prelunch martinis, a staffer entered the room nervously, the urgency of the moment signaled by the fact that he approached Graham in just his shirtsleeves.2017, R Aldous, Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian. From the entry shirtsleeves
• Consciously or not, most local anarchists embraced the Bakuninist view, which had an innate affinity to the revolutionary urgency and insurrectionalism so pervasive in the movement.2010, Juan Suriano, Paradoxes of Utopia, →ISBN. From the entry insurrectionalism
• The urgency is for society to free itself from the shackles of these wordmasters, especially those in politics and the ever-expanding reaches of law and lawyers.2004, Marshall Fishwick, Probing Popular Culture On and Off the Internet, The Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 221. From the entry wordmaster

Meaning of urgency

1. noun The quality or condition of being urgent.
2. noun Insistence, pressure, urge.
3. noun A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.

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Questions about urgency in a sentence

How do you use urgency in a sentence?

Urgency is used as a noun. For example: “I have this sudden urgency to use the toilet.”

What is a short sentence with urgency?

“the urgency of a demand”

What does urgency mean?

Urgency means the quality or condition of being urgent.