How to Use acute in a Sentence

acute

adjective

• It's a politically acute film that does not oversimplify the issues.
• And as the hunger for scarce talent becomes more acute, the movement of people will take on new economic salience.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
• His sister Melissa Gordon Uram said the cause was acute myeloid leukemia.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• Every infection added increased risk for both acute and long-term complications.
  — Bycarolyn Barber, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2022
• Metchie was diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia.
  — Kristie Rieken, Chron, 2 Oct. 2022
• The pain will be especially acute in New England, which is heavily reliant on heating oil to keep homes warm.
  — CBS News, 20 Oct. 2022
• Marked by sudden and acute watery diarrhea, cholera can kill within hours if left untreated, warns WHO.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 26 Oct. 2022
• Chakra says the currency devaluation combined with an acute cost of living crisis has decimated the local box office in Lebanon.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Advertisement About a decade ago, as the city’s housing crisis became more acute, rooms were rented out illegally to dozens of people who paid up to $600 a month until the city forced everyone to leave.
  — Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
• But Slotkin has one vulnerability that is particularly acute in Michigan: her support for a Biden-era rule that as many as two-thirds of all new cars bring zero emissions by 2032.
  — Philip Elliott / Detroit, TIME, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024