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
  • Uranus is in the mix, too, adding a level of urgency to the whole thing.
    Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 Mar. 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
  • This adds so much urgency for me to the film right now.
    Leah Asmelash, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • And playing from in front kept the Ravens mired in a sense of urgency.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Meanwhile, for Taye, 27, the memes bring a sense of urgency.
    Sara Youngblood Gregory, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Did the Cold War and the need to get capable planes in service add any sense of urgency to the job?
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But a greater sense of urgency isn’t all there is, either.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • And maybe, if things work out right, the clock can bring some urgency to a game that has been accused of lacking it in the past.
    Adam Elder, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The ads give a false sense of urgency where there really is none.
    Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The urgency that propels the doc is that of a non-warring people fighting the good fight.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 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
  • Others believe that the stakes of the race — and the prospect of a return of Donald Trump to the White House — have helped instill a sense of urgency.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 June 2024
  • With elections looming in the U.S. and much of the world, there is urgency in forging a global treaty.
    Lawrence O. Gostin, Scientific American, 19 June 2024
  • Yet almost 80% of the public doesn’t share our sense of urgency.
    Jerome M. Adams, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Some of those denser images even show a sense of urgency and perhaps frustration at the hand of the artist.
    Brittanie Shey, Chron, 21 Apr. 2023
  • South won in dummy and led the jack of clubs, faking a finesse — and John still saw no urgency to take his ace.
    Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Scammers use a sense of urgency to lure you into bad deals.
    Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Not because of losing the bags in the first place -- but because of the lack of urgency over their recovery.
    Julia Buckley, CNN, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Long Covid researchers feel there needs to be greater urgency.
    Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Liev Schreiber, the m.c., spoke with urgency about waning interest in Ukraine around the world.
    Boris Fishman, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • With the play-in and playoff races so tightly packed, the Lakers have needed to approach the last month with a sense of urgency.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 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
  • With a sense of urgency, my father and I planned a trip for last June with the help of Jon Hall, the founder of mammalwatching.com and the de facto leader of the mammal-watching community.
    Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024

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