How to Use acute in a Sentence

acute

adjective

• It's a politically acute film that does not oversimplify the issues.
• The problem is more acute for emerging-markets economies, which use the dollar to trade foreign goods and commodities.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• This is becoming an acute governance problem for at least two specific reasons.
  — Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Metchie said Sunday that he was recently diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia.
  — Kristie Rieken, ajc, 29 July 2022
• Dizon-Rosales said the pediatric acute care nurses and doctors, as well as the patients and their worried families, will all miss Gatimu.
  — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022
• Companies that overextended themselves by leveraging their balance sheet and bitcoin stockpiles to finance new miners through loans, could be facing even more acute pressure.
  — Colin Harper, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• But the need for affordable housing in Revere, where 57 percent of residents are considered low income, has only grown more acute.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Aug. 2022
• The conflicts that ensued were generally at their most acute—and most violent—in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Complications from the disease can include respiratory failure, shock and acute kidney failure.
  — CBS News, 4 Aug. 2022
• Baby Boomers, especially women, are retiring early, making the supply-and-demand problem more acute.
  — Rahier Rahman, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• Now is the time, and the need has never been more acute.
  — Thomas Bognanno, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Among the younger cast members, the sense of loss seems more acute.
  — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
• Your headache could last as long as the acute phase of the virus—up to a week or two.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 20 Jan. 2024
• The impact is even more acute on the compact body of a small child.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• The doctors blamed the deaths on the city’s acute oxygen shortage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Hence acute, which luckily got me the ‘u’ in the right spot.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The goal is to distract from the acute loneliness in a healthy way.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, Woman's Day, 11 Jan. 2019
• Yet there are some signs the pressure is now less acute.
  — Ian Talley, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2018
• When the sail is pulled in much tighter to the boat, its angle to the wind is more acute and that makes the ship travel faster.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 July 2024
• This problem has been most acute with the type 2 portion of the oral vaccine.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 Dec. 2020
• There will be an acute pain in the inner aspect of the knee and walking will be painful.
  — SI.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Time will tell how the powers that be solve this acute problem.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• The acoustic damage was acute, and worsened over the next five days.
  — Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2021
• Against the background of the current health crisis, the need for that income is acute.
  — CNN, 27 Sep. 2020
• But there may have been a more acute reason for wanting to leave.
  — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• All of it has become more acute with the response to its closing.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Still, the ebb, lately, had become acute, and hard to account for.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
• The threat is especially acute this month as the Court winds down its term.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• The terrible thing here is that the desperation in Rex is so acute.
  — Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 29 Oct. 2024
• Despite the huge amount of appropriated funds and the strenuous efforts of many individuals working in health care, Americans have increasingly suffered from a range of acute and chronic conditions over recent decades.
  — David Marks, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024