How to Use acute in a Sentence

acute

adjective

• It's a politically acute film that does not oversimplify the issues.
• Reed grew up with an acute sense of what Jim Crow law meant: separate but not really equal.
  — Harvey Araton, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• While schools across the country are facing budget challenges, the issue is more acute in MPS, Tardy said.
  — Hunter Turpin, Journal Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• And even if a bank run has been prevented, the threat facing independent Hollywood’s preferred banking partners is real and may get more acute as time goes on.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• Since the pandemic started, grocery prices — a particularly acute concern among voters — are up 20%.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024
• Tamayo elaborates that keto diarrhea is often subtle, and not necessarily explosive or acute.
  — Perri O. Blumberg, Men's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
• Maintenance therapy is ongoing therapy for a disease that is administered after the acute phase of treatment has been completed.
  — Gagandeep Brar, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2023
• During acute illness, Omicron is much less likely to land patients in the hospital due to severe disease, which researchers know is a major risk factor for Long Covid.
  — Byjennifer Couzin-Frankel, science.org, 21 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Her eye and ear for the tribal details of tech-bro culture are acute.
  — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2020
• The fear of missing out, FOMO, is an acute form of regret.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
• We can be relieved at the end of this that one acute danger has been ended.
  — Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 23 Dec. 2016
• In sharp contrast, pandemic relief funds arrived in these communities in the same time period with few restrictions, giving municipalities the flexibility to address acute needs and even bolster long-term resilience.
  — Tracy Kijewski-Correa, The Conversation, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Sep 2024