URGENT in a Sentence

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70 example sentences for URGENT, such as:

1. She panted out the urgent message.
2. It is urgent that the law be changed.
3. The summons was a brief and urgent one.
4. I have some urgent business to attend to.
5. This condition requires urgent treatment.

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 Meanings and Examples of URGENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
urgent
 a.  very important and needing attention immediately
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  Ethan felt that if he had pleaded an urgent need Hale might have made shift to pay him; but pride, and an instinctive prudence, kept him from resorting to this argument.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Scarlett and Melanie both were thinking of Ashley, as they always did when urgent tasks or the necessity of carrying on a conversation did not divert them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  But she went without the shawl, for it was upstairs and her need to see Ashley and lay her troubles before him was too urgent to wait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  His eyebrows went up in disbelief and she laid a hand, feverish and urgent, on his arm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  Scarlett was in Marietta when Rhett's urgent telegram came.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
7  She did not want to tell, this was not the way she had intended to lead up to the subject of her love but his hand was urgent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
8  But as the minutes passed the need of throwing herself on his comprehension became more urgent: she could not bear the weight of her misery alone.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
9  She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
10  The rest yielded to Miss Ophelia's urgent representations, that their master's safety depended on their stillness and obedience.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  His body was urgent against her, and she hadn't the heart any more to fight.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
12  The audience cleared their throats and tossed a few stalks into the fire, not because these deeds were urgent, but to give themselves time to weigh the moral of the story.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
13  The summons was a brief and urgent one.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
14  Now it burst upon our ears, nearer, louder, more urgent than before.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
15  You can tell your friends that we should have been happy to have come with you, but that urgent business required us to be in town.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  I want to talk to your manager about an urgent matter.
2  The paper calls for an urgent shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly.
3  I have some urgent business to attend to.
4  The doctor was called up three times during the night to attend urgent cases.
5  He was in urgent need of medical attention.
6  Go most urgent, is the most beautiful scenery; hurt the most are always the most real emotions.
7  This condition requires urgent treatment.
8  They've called an urgent meeting for this evening.
9  Getting food, medicine and blankets to flood victims is the most urgent priority.
10  They have made an urgent request for international aid.
11  It is urgent that the law be changed.
12  I must post this letter; it's urgent.
13  Churchill telegraphed an urgent message to Wavell.
14  We've had an urgent message saying that your father's ill.
15  She panted out the urgent message.