How to Use acute in a Sentence

acute

adjective

• It's a politically acute film that does not oversimplify the issues.
• Now is the time, and the need has never been more acute.
  — Thomas Bognanno, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Among the younger cast members, the sense of loss seems more acute.
  — Meg Bernhard, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2022
• The impact is even more acute on the compact body of a small child.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• Your headache could last as long as the acute phase of the virus—up to a week or two.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 20 Jan. 2024
• The goal is to distract from the acute loneliness in a healthy way.
  — Colleen Stinchcombe, Woman's Day, 11 Jan. 2019
• Yet there are some signs the pressure is now less acute.
  — Ian Talley, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2018
• The doctors blamed the deaths on the city’s acute oxygen shortage.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• Time will tell how the powers that be solve this acute problem.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• But there may have been a more acute reason for wanting to leave.
  — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2019
• There will be an acute pain in the inner aspect of the knee and walking will be painful.
  — SI.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• All of it has become more acute with the response to its closing.
  — Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2021
• Hence acute, which luckily got me the ‘u’ in the right spot.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The acoustic damage was acute, and worsened over the next five days.
  — Ashley Braun, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2021
• Against the background of the current health crisis, the need for that income is acute.
  — CNN, 27 Sep. 2020
• We can be relieved at the end of this that one acute danger has been ended.
  — Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 23 Dec. 2016
• Why three days as the limit for prescriptions for acute pain?
  — Stephen Koff, cleveland.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Her eye and ear for the tribal details of tech-bro culture are acute.
  — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 25 Dec. 2020
• Canal has grown up with an acute awareness of the different ways one can be stared at.
  — Hugh Morris, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
• Back pain is considered acute when a new episode lasts for less than four weeks.
  — Consumer Reports, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• This quarter the issue of dollar-strength is even more acute.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2021
• The political stakes seem to be much higher and more acute.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2023
• The threat is especially acute this month as the Court winds down its term.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 June 2022
• The death toll in the state’s nursing homes has been especially acute.
  — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 20 Dec. 2020
• Though the settlement is behind them, the pain of their loss remains acute.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• First, the fact that starvation can be so rapidly acute.
  — Jackson Landers, Smithsonian, 31 May 2017
• This problem has been most acute with the type 2 portion of the oral vaccine.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 Dec. 2020
• The fallout for Collins and many other survivors is still acute.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 12 Feb. 2020
• Most of us have never lived through a more chaotic time, which makes the hunger for order more acute.
  — Charles Isherwood, Town & Country, 30 May 2017
• Health care shortages tend to be more acute in rural areas.
  — Michelle Andrews, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024