How to Use urgency in a Sentence

urgency

noun

• If that is the case, the RA needn’t have felt any sense of urgency.
  — Vogue, 23 Sep. 2023
• The full moon is in your sign on the 3rd, bringing a sense of urgency with it.
  — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
• The end of the world will not be glamorous, but the urgency of his work has come to pass.
  — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• And playing from in front kept the Ravens mired in a sense of urgency.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
• Our movement has grown—and so has the urgency of our fight.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• Still, the Dodgers’ lack of urgency throughout the process wasn’t lost on Turner.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
• Among young filmmakers, the sense of urgency seems much the same.
  — Zachary Barnes, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
• So spare us any new fake sense of urgency on the border.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
• But a greater sense of urgency isn’t all there is, either.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
• The ads give a false sense of urgency where there really is none.
  — Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024
• The process of simply getting the recall was itself a red flag for a lack of urgency about this fix.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2023
• The urgency of the pandemic led many companies to test that adage out.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
• No one needs to remind the Bruins about the urgency of the situation.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Companies still in the process of leaving Russia may now feel a fresh sense of urgency to do so.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 17 July 2023
• There’s no current timetable for realignment aside from the urgency of the four Pac-12 schools to figure out their next home.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
• The CEOs’ presence in the bargaining sessions is a sign of the urgency the studios’ feel about getting a deal.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
• The urgency behind this work centers on the rate at which species are lost is faster than restoration efforts.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• There’s a sense of urgency to the game, which offers clues to the motivations of those who built and distributed it.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• There was something refreshing about a text that didn’t need to be perfect, that came from a place of urgency.
  — Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• School board members conveyed a sense of urgency Thursday to approve the work.
  — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• The new urgency led to a series of design problems that seemed to threaten the Macintosh dream.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 July 2023
• The organization is hoping to raise $19 million by the fall, and Prince William stressed the urgency of the campaign.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 8 Feb. 2024
• Your in-laws just handed you a sense of urgency to get that parental infrastructure in place.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Big 12's proactive early deal has added a sense of urgency, along with the flirtations of some schools with the Big 12 (Colorado, Arizona).
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 2 July 2023
• As Combs’s cover stays glued near the peak of the Billboard Hot 100, there’s the hope in Nashville and beyond that this can add to the discourse of the urgency of change in country music.
  — Emily Yahr, Anchorage Daily News, 13 July 2023
• Concerns around climate change have added a new level of urgency to these plans.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
• This rhetoric sounded radical in its day, and rings with urgency even now.
  — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• But there’s no urgency to fill it with another point guard.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2023
• This summer has made the urgency of the situation unavoidably clear: Canada, and the world, needs a plan—and fast.
  — Omar Mouallem, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2023
• These gunshots should have spurred greater urgency to confront the suspect, the report said, rather than marked a retreat.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024