How to Use urgent in a Sentence

urgent

adjective

• He addressed us in an urgent manner.
• An urgent voice came over the intercom, telling us to leave the building immediately.
• We've come to deliver an urgent message.
• And that one had, ‘Lyrics, urgent,’ written next to it.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• Therefore, the need to summon more shows may be less urgent.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• These are signs of a city in urgent need of new leadership.
  — William E. Oberndorf, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024
• Sathyamurthy shakes his head in disapproval and says there’s an urgent need to address the threat to the groves.
  — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• Pritchard’s own hopes for the spaceport were humbler but no less urgent.
  — WIRED, 31 Jan. 2023
• Just before the Prince of Wales left, there was an urgent request to fulfill for his host.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• But most of the calls that are sent to A.C.S. would be considered less urgent for police.
  — Murat Oztaskin, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• For Lovelace, who served in the Army and finished a tour in Afghanistan 13 years ago, the issue is personal and urgent.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• In the past, that meant an officer had to go to court, or even meet a judge at a diner in the middle of the night if the case was urgent.
  — Ryan Mac, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The structure was unwieldy yet urgent: 44 (yes, 44) songs over more than three hours.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2023
• Oxygen is an urgent need in this mountain town of 2,857.
  — Peter Elkind, ProPublica, 13 Nov. 2024
• As a sign of the urgent need, the bill passed with only two state lawmakers opposed.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Oct. 2022
• So the Ukrainians need more, and that’s the urgent and important message from me to all allies.
  — Nicole Winfield, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
• That makes this week the most urgent time to collect rewards to put players ahead of the curve for the entire season ahead.
  — Chris Edgerton, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2024
• There's now an urgent need to protect the mounds from further damage, Snow said.
  — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 14 Oct. 2024
• The state of Noah’s body is still the subject of many of his family’s most urgent and unanswered questions.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
• For the Warriors, there’s nothing more urgent than making up ground.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Now that spring has arrived, her calls have become more urgent.
  — Catherine Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• The urgent message cannot be overlooked: Plastic is a threat to human health.
  — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024
• Joey King’s top brought one urgent question to mind: What happened to cleavage?
  — Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 11 July 2024
• For his final film, Sembene wanted to make a statement against the practice, and the result is urgent and earnest.
  — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
• The burning question in need of an urgent resolution was how to slip through the closing net.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Congress is on a two-week recess, but there is an urgent push among some lawmakers to do more to fund Ukraine.
  — CBS News, 18 Feb. 2024
• That doesn’t mean that drones like the Vampire make Ukraine’s urgent need for artillery shells any less desperate.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• The other impetus to talk to Collins was more unusual — and felt more urgent.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Training late and hastily for such an urgent need as air defense is riskier than having done the right thing in the first place.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2022
• Be wary of deals that appear too good to be true, as well as websites that use excessive pop-ups and urgent language.
  — Emma Li, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024