urgent

adjective ur·gent \ ˈər-jənt \

|Updated on: 9 Aug 2018

Examples: urgent in a Sentence

Definition of urgent

1 a : calling for immediate attention : pressing

urgent appeals

an urgent need

b : conveying a sense of urgency

2 : urging insistently : importunate

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urgently

adverb

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Examples of urgent in a Sentence

We've come to deliver an urgent message.
an urgent appeal for assistance
He addressed us in an urgent manner.
An urgent voice came over the intercom, telling us to leave the building immediately.

Recent Examples of urgent from the Web

To San Francisco’s growing ranks of bicycle commuters, bikeways constitute an urgent need.

— rachel swan, SFChronicle.com, "Bicyclists protest as city plans for safer lanes hit bumps," 13 July 2018
One is that if there is an urgent need, so something is on fire, then usually everybody’s willing to clear out all the obstacles.

— recode staff, Recode, "Full transcript: Matt Cutts of the U.S. Digital Service on Recode Decode," 12 July 2018
Maybe try actually talking to them, so that police have more time to respond to urgent calls.

— refinery29.com, "Rep. Janelle Bynum Says Someone Called Police While She Was Campaigning," 5 July 2018
As word spread that the President Trump administration was separating migrant families, urgent calls went out across the internet: Interpreters were needed at the United States-Mexico border to help immigrants understand their legal cases.

— anita snow, The Christian Science Monitor, "Indigenous language interpreters help asylum-seekers at the border," 2 July 2018
In addition to ambulance services, Grady this fall expects to have nurse practitioners respond to some less urgent calls in mobile integrated health units.

— arielle kass, ajc, "Grady says plan in place, will be ready to handle south Fulton service," 29 June 2018
Starting in early 2010 and through countless make-or-break summits for the next five years, Merkel brought along a reluctant German parliament while holding off urgent calls to do more, faster.

— alan crawford, Bloomberg.com, "As Merkel’s Power Drains, the Threat to Europe Grows," 27 June 2018
An urgent call for women rat catchers has been issued by Health Director Geiger.

— johnny miller, San Francisco Chronicle, "RFK gunned down at Ambassador, 1993," 30 May 2018
And that’s just one of the city’s six shelter centers. Photograph by Casey Christopher, courtesy of Los Angeles Animal Services To attend to the furry flood, the department has put out an urgent call for volunteers to foster the kittens.

— brittany martin, Los Angeles Magazine, "L.A. Animal Shelters Are Crawling with Kittens," 15 May 2018

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