How to Use urgency in a Sentence

urgency

noun
  • Does that give you more urgency to make a deal?
    — ABC News, 31 May 2026
  • Where is the urgency on their part to make this right?
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Is there more urgency to make a move now?
    — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025
  • What unites these books is not style but urgency.
    — Alex Averbuch, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026
  • What unites them is not style but the urgency of their ideas.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • That urgency could or should help boost his price tag.
    — Sam Khan Jr, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • When the frame is fuzzy, urgency fills the gap.
    — Gerald J. Leonard, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • There was urgency in his voice.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2026
  • There’s some urgency to the trip.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Bergart frames it with some urgency.
    — Pooja Mistry, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
  • The urgency is not lost on the C-suite.
    — Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • This is a team that’s long in the tooth with a sense of urgency to win right away.
    — Tony Jones, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • No one else in the theater seemed to share my sense of urgency.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Apr. 2026
  • That is why messages like this lean so hard on urgency.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The drop in hard data comes as many see the virus with less urgency.
    — Zaz Hollander, Anchorage Daily News, 23 July 2022
  • What differs in these small rooms right now is the urgency.
    — Jamil Wyne, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • So there’s some real urgency to get this done in the next few weeks.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 30 Apr. 2026
  • That gave us a sense of urgency because there’s not a lot of time left.
    — Gabriel Sama, Mercury News, 28 June 2026
  • So there’s this sense of urgency coming from the folks who run this.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2022
  • The urgency couldn’t be greater.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Uranus is in the mix, too, adding a level of urgency to the whole thing.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Portland shot it well and played with more urgency.
    — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2026
  • Mirković, his mouth in a straight line, looking to pass with urgency.
    — Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the urgency, the process will take a while.
    — Daniel Payne, STAT, 13 May 2026
  • Then, slow down—don’t be fooled into a false sense of urgency.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Trump is working with a sense of urgency and with the wind at his back, in a sense.
    — Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Math must be treated with the same urgency.
    — Bruce Rauner, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • In the South there is the lack of urgency to do anything.
    — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Should there be as much urgency as ever in the Bronx?
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026

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