How to Use urgent in a Sentence

urgent

adjective

• He addressed us in an urgent manner.
• An urgent voice came over the intercom, telling us to leave the building immediately.
• We've come to deliver an urgent message.
• Therefore, the need to summon more shows may be less urgent.
  — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• Sathyamurthy shakes his head in disapproval and says there’s an urgent need to address the threat to the groves.
  — Mahima Jain, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• Just before the Prince of Wales left, there was an urgent request to fulfill for his host.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
• For Lovelace, who served in the Army and finished a tour in Afghanistan 13 years ago, the issue is personal and urgent.
  — John Diedrich, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
• In the past, that meant an officer had to go to court, or even meet a judge at a diner in the middle of the night if the case was urgent.
  — Ryan Mac, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• The structure was unwieldy yet urgent: 44 (yes, 44) songs over more than three hours.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2023
• For the Warriors, there’s nothing more urgent than making up ground.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Now that spring has arrived, her calls have become more urgent.
  — Catherine Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Apr. 2023
• The burning question in need of an urgent resolution was how to slip through the closing net.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
• Congress is on a two-week recess, but there is an urgent push among some lawmakers to do more to fund Ukraine.
  — CBS News, 18 Feb. 2024
• That doesn’t mean that drones like the Vampire make Ukraine’s urgent need for artillery shells any less desperate.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• The other impetus to talk to Collins was more unusual — and felt more urgent.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Maryland Farm Bureau describes the issue as urgent.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• His quartet’s plodding, reverb-rich ambiance evokes Low in a broad way, urgent and raw despite the glacial pace.
  — Dustin Nelson, SPIN, 1 Feb. 2024
• The researchers behind the report say that there needs to be urgent action on climate change to mitigate the health impacts.
  — Dr. Khushali Jhaveri, ABC News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Art was useful, too, as a handmaiden to the urgent problem of narrative.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• And, because housing is the most urgent need there and everywhere in California, the A’s penciled in 3,000 new homes at each site.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Those rallying on Tuesday will emphasize the urgent need to release the hostages captured by Hamas more than a month ago.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2023
• But the situation is too urgent–and all our futures depend on it.
  — Andrew Martin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• The Red Cross is also asking Hamas to allow in medicine and to immediately release the hostages with urgent health needs, like Rut.
  — Adam Sella, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• There’s an urgent need for Hollywood to tackle the climate crisis.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The questions raised by this incident are obvious and urgent: What happened to him?
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• Renée Rapp is speaking out about the scary 2022 incident that inspired the urgent title track to her Snow Angel album.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Sep. 2023
• The impact of ‘Poacher’ was deeply personal, and Richie’s portrayal of the urgent issue of wildlife crime resonated strongly with me and the team.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 6 Feb. 2024
• And, again, there’s an urgent need for improvements in water and sanitation to stop the cycle of cholera outbreaks.
  — Christine Ro, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
• The winner was then expected to put the design into production, with as few changes as possible, to meet the Army’s urgent need.
  — Mike Hirschberg, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
• Rather than bickering over the budget or impeachment, the GOP should be focusing on an urgent matter of life and death.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 22 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024