Example sentences for: urge

How can you use “urge” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hannibal's elephants did not have to give way to oncoming traffic (there was none) and cries of “Mush, mush” are presumably all that has ever been required on polar ice-caps to urge on Eskimo dogs.

  • As I was not at the symposium, I can only assume that the symposiasts concerned themselves less (if at all) with the problem of trying to urge editors to engage professional lexicographers as reviewers than with the effort of trying to ensure that editors be provided with certain guidelines on How To Review A Dictionary, which they fondly expect would be passed on to the selected amateur reviewers thereby making them competent, professional reviewers, a forlorn hope at best.

  • The urge to merge is a powerful one, but resisting it is usually the smartest course.

  • Conquer this urge, and you may graduate the first month of parenthood without fielding a call from an American Express security officer worried about "unusual activity" on your card.

  • Indeed, the urge to defend the rights of deeply unpopular people is admirable.


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