URGENCY in a Sentence

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30 example sentences for URGENCY, such as:

1. There was urgency in Mammy's voice.
2. He held her fast and she felt his urgency.
3. She turned to Prissy and spoke with feverish urgency.
4. Melanie's eyes were wide and bright with soft urgency.
5. It is a matter of the utmost urgency to find out what has happened to these people.

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 Meanings and Examples of URGENCY
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urgency
 n.  emergency; pressing importance; need; pressing necessity
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  "You say it for me and light some candles, too," he said, smiling at the frightened urgency in her voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  It was resonant, deeper, and his words fell swiftly as though hurried with some inner urgency.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  Melanie's eyes were wide and bright with soft urgency.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  There were harsh lines of fatigue and urgency in his face but his tattered gray hat was off with a sweep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
5  She turned to Prissy and spoke with feverish urgency.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  Her mind prodded to action by the feverish urgency of Melanie's voice, Scarlett thought hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
7  Frank gave her the three hundred dollars, bewildered by her sweet urgency, reluctant at first, because it meant the end of his hope of buying the sawmill immediately.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  And they were caring about life again, caring with the same urgency and the same violence that animated them before the war had cut their lives in two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  There was urgency in Mammy's voice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
10  She had risen and stood before him, once more completely mastered by the inner urgency of the moment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
11  He held her fast and she felt his urgency.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  Yellow celandines now were in crowds, flat open, pressed back in urgency, and the yellow glitter of themselves.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
13  And now you see the deadly urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to caution.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
14  The barren scene, the sense of loneliness, and the mystery and urgency of my task all struck a chill into my heart.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
15  And taking everything into account, I believe that in cases of urgency, we shall find a certain degree of stability sooner in commonwealths than in princes.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER LIX.
Example Sentence:
1  It is a matter of the utmost urgency to find out what has happened to these people.
2  There is a particular urgency in this case, and it would help if you could bend the rules.
3  The murders have given added urgency to the debate about inner-city crime.
4  A strong feeling of urgency would impel her; if she failed to finish the project right then, she knew that she would never get it done.
5  Last week the WTO's Director General warned of a crisis in trade negotiations, clearly hoping to create a sense of urgency among member states.