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How to use urgent in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Urgent means requiring immediate attention. Example: “An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.”

Examples of urgent by meaning

adjectiveRequiring immediate attention.

  • An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

More sentences with urgent

  • Please forgive me if my phone goes off - I'm expecting an urgent call from my boss.From the entry forgive
  • It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.From the entry buckle
  • This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.From the entry right away
  • The daytime team got an urgent handover from the afterhours department.From the entry handover
  • This item is urgent, so please start on it straight away.From the entry straight away
  • Rebleeds are not unusual. A brisk rebleed is an urgent concern.From the entry rebleed
  • I have to go for an urgent pee.From the entry pee
  • We've just received an urgent message from the President.From the entry message
  • It could be serious, my head needs urgent examining.From the entry examining
  • Since he'd entered the urgent care center, his breathlessness had only gotten worse, even though he'd been sitting quietly.From the entry breathlessness
  • How can I get in touch with her? It's urgent.From the entry in touch
  • The house stands in need of urgent repairs.From the entry in need
  • This backport fixes an urgent bug.From the entry backport
  • We were beginning to suspect that her ethical qualms were sometimes performative, as the urgent need for fairness and justice seemed to apply to some people but not to others.From the entry performative
  • This will become increasingly urgent as next year's General Election hoves into view.2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3. From the entry hove
  • The urgent dispatch was addressed to Nimitz with MacArthur and King as coaddressees.2020 September 1, Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945 (Vol. 3) (The Pacific War Trilogy), W. W.…. From the entry coaddressee
  • At first, Lovelock didn’t view global warming as an urgent threat to the planet.2007 November 1, Jeff Goodell, “James Lovelock, the Prophet”, in Rolling Stone. From the entry Gaia
  • Example: This assignment doesn’t have an urgent deadline, so own time, own target.2005 June 19, Hong Xinyi, The Sunday Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore…. From the entry own time, own target
  • A serious study of Rabbinic androgony and cosmogony is an urgent desideratum; for the present, see E.2004 October 7, David Stern, The Anthology in Jewish Literature, Oxford University Press, →ISBN. From the entry androgony
  • A good investor doesn't respect an urgent buck or short-term profit—only a greedhead thinks like that.1996, Cornelius P. McCarthy, The Under 40 Financial Planning Guide. From the entry greedhead
  • Hmph” of air being shoved from her lungs by weighted urgent spasmings.1989, Jack Stephens, Triangulation, page 97. From the entry spasming
  • The artist's imposition on the fleshlike malleability of the clay is an urgent presence.1988 March 4, Harold Henderson, quoting Esther Saks Gallery, “City File”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry fleshlike
  • Two Birds—One Stone: All counselors realize the urgent need for orientation of new pupils.1954, Douglass Brown, “Here Is How We Do It: Programs and Practices around the Country”, in Bess Day, editor, The School Counselor, volume…. From the entry two birds—one stone
  • New teachers in a school—especially if they are inexperienced teachers—have just as urgent a need for orientation.1954, Douglass Brown, “Here Is How We Do It: Programs and Practices around the Country”, in Bess Day, editor, The School Counselor, volume…. From the entry two birds—one stone
  • This was to defeat Podson's urgent need of anybody's company to reprieve him from his own.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 121. From the entry frowningly
  • The urgent alarm means that they are within thirty miles of Hankow.[1938 March 20, Agnes Moncrieff, “Hankow and the Godown, January-March 1938”, in Barbara Francis, editor, You Do Not travel in China at…. From the entry Xiaogan
  • “This is a very urgent message for the countess’ ears alone,” replied Rokoff.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 43. From the entry slip
  • There is an urgent need to examine and represent the formation and development of quiet-quitting intentions among Chinese university lecturers.2023 August, Lu Mingxiao, Abdullah Al Mamun, Xuelin Chen, Qing Yang, Mohammad Masukujjaman, “Quiet quitting during COVID-19: the role of…. From the entry quiet quit
  • It is Scotland’s good fortune, even so, that the country will not be an immediate or urgent priority for Trussian attention.2022 September 4, Alex Massie, “Liz Truss should steer clear of Nicola Sturgeon”, in The Times. From the entry Trussian
  • When a host noted clean air rules as an example of something that might be more urgent, Mnuchin ignored the interjection.2020 January 23, Philip Bump, “Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an…. From the entry interjection
  • Without urgent action, the majority of the Earth’s topsoil could be severely degraded or lost before the end of this century.2013, Al Gore, “Outgrowth”, in The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry topsoil
  • Label the cubbies from top to bottom in large bold type as follows: superurgent, urgent, non-urgent, hold, file.2010, Cindy Glovinsky, Making Peace with Your Office Life, page 195. From the entry superurgent
  • The urgent task for Germans was to overcome the Semitism within themselves, and racial hygiene was the means to this end.2005, Roderick Stackelberg, “Hentschel, Willibald (1858–1947)”, in Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice, →ISBN. From the entry Semitism
  • We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic.c. 2000, Joe Grimm, Detroit Free Press. From the entry journalese
  • Given the cluster of syndromes that occur menopausally, effects of new SERMs on cognition and affect becomes increasingly urgent.1996, James A. Bristol, Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry: Volume 31, page 15. From the entry menopausally
  • At that age, I would have been reluctant to see myself as the urgent stallion and Veronica as the skittish mare.1992, Scott Russell Sanders, “Wayland”, in Joseph Epstein, Robert Atwan, editors, The Best American Essays 1993, New York, N.Y.: Ticknor &…. From the entry humanflesh
  • An interserver communications server can support and communication facility: connection-based, connectionless, urgent messages, communication via shared memory, and other paradigms.1987, Y. Artsy, A Study of Fully Open Computing Systems, page 58. From the entry interserver
  • Later that night, she visited me in my quarters with an urgent—and I might add, laudatory—message from the Pharaohess Herself.1983, The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12, page 330. From the entry pharaohess
  • Poland claimed urgent need of penicillin for its post-war venereal disease campaign and appealed to the World Health Organization for aid.1972, Dorothy W. Douglas with Lynn Turgeon, chapter XIV, in Transitional Economic Systems, The Polish-Czech Example, New York and London…. From the entry W.H.O.

Meaning of urgent

  1. adjective Requiring immediate attention.
  2. adjective Of people: insistent, solicitous.

Full definition of urgent

Questions about urgent in a sentence

How do you use urgent in a sentence?
Urgent is used as an adjective. For example: “An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.”
What is a short sentence with urgent?
“This backport fixes an urgent bug.”
What does urgent mean?
Urgent means requiring immediate attention.

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