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.
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In the distance, sandstone cliffs, as imposing as the outcroppings in a John Ford Western, loom over the unruly bacchanal—and over Luis and Esteban’s urgent search—with monumental indifference.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
With such urgent projects in need of funding, how does IBF choose which ones to go for?
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
To that, like Van Halen’s Fair Warning, there is an urgent undercurrent that wasn’t in Burns’ previous films.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
Despite the urgent needs, only a fraction of shelter aid has been allowed to enter Gaza by the Israeli authorities.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
With such urgent projects in need of funding, how does IBF choose which ones to go for?
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
To that, like Van Halen’s Fair Warning, there is an urgent undercurrent that wasn’t in Burns’ previous films.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
Despite the urgent needs, only a fraction of shelter aid has been allowed to enter Gaza by the Israeli authorities.
—Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 14 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for urgent
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“Urgent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/urgent. Accessed 17 Nov. 2025.
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