How to Use urgency in a Sentence

urgency

noun
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  • 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
  • Uranus is in the mix, too, adding a level of urgency to the whole thing.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 Mar. 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
  • This adds so much urgency for me to the film right now.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 3 Nov. 2024
  • And playing from in front kept the Ravens mired in a sense of urgency.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But some observers said the tone of the event felt out of touch with the urgency of the crisis.
    — Time, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The drop in hard data comes as many see the virus with less urgency.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
  • Meanwhile, for Taye, 27, the memes bring a sense of urgency.
    — Sara Youngblood Gregory, refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • The sense of urgency is as intense as rush hour traffic on the way to work.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2022
  • So spare us any new fake sense of urgency on the border.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • So there’s this sense of urgency coming from the folks who run this.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2022
  • Did the Cold War and the need to get capable planes in service add any sense of urgency to the job?
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • That lent a sense of urgency to which stories were told.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The only sure thing seemed to be a sense of urgency — that this was a rare moment that had to be seized.
    — Vivian Wang, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • All of that is to create a sense of urgency and pressure.
    — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Some fans would have liked to see a bigger sense of urgency.
    — cleveland, 10 Oct. 2022
  • But a greater sense of urgency isn’t all there is, either.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • And maybe, if things work out right, the clock can bring some urgency to a game that has been accused of lacking it in the past.
    — Adam Elder, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
  • The ads give a false sense of urgency where there really is none.
    — Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024
  • His motor and urgency to move his feet without the puck can wane.
    — Corey Pronman, The Athletic, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Then in the second half, some urgency begins to set in, which is why the scores tend to be much closer.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • What’s been their calling card for more than a decade is their rep as alt-rock bangers with a sense of urgency.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • The world must recognize the urgency of this crisis—not just for Pakistan’s future, but for the stability of South Asia and beyond.
    — Imran Khan, TIME, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The FasTrak scam texts have been reported to create a false sense of urgency, asking drivers to pay their tolls by a specific date or risk further fines or even the loss of their driver's license.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025

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