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
  • 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
  • And playing from in front kept the Ravens mired in a sense of urgency.
    Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • But a greater sense of urgency isn’t all there is, either.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 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
  • 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
  • Long Covid researchers feel there needs to be greater urgency.
    Rachel Cohrs and Betsy Ladyzhets, STAT, 20 Apr. 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
  • Companies still in the process of leaving Russia may now feel a fresh sense of urgency to do so.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 17 July 2023
  • There’s no current timetable for realignment aside from the urgency of the four Pac-12 schools to figure out their next home.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The CEOs’ presence in the bargaining sessions is a sign of the urgency the studios’ feel about getting a deal.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 25 Oct. 2023
  • No sense of urgency Even with all the uncertainty, there was some good news at the summit.
    Trudy Rubin, The Mercury News, 17 July 2024
  • The recent spread of H5N1 avian influenza among U.S. dairy cows highlights the urgency of this need.
    Patrick Skerrett, STAT, 18 May 2024
  • The urgency behind this work centers on the rate at which species are lost is faster than restoration efforts.
    Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • There’s a sense of urgency to the game, which offers clues to the motivations of those who built and distributed it.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
  • There was something refreshing about a text that didn’t need to be perfect, that came from a place of urgency.
    Jillian Steinhauer, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • School board members conveyed a sense of urgency Thursday to approve the work.
    Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
  • One red flag is that the scammers will try to create a sense of urgency to manipulate their victims.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Acceleration is smooth and rapid, in typical EV style, with a real sense of urgency in Sport mode.
    Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2024

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