Example sentences for: urging

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

  • Newsweek 's ebullient cover story calls Hillary Clinton "the hottest commodity in American public life," urging her to run because: 1) She has sacrificed enough of her own ambitions for her husband's career; 2) she's a born policy wonk; and 3) it would strengthen the Clintons' marriage.

  • An economics professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia is urging Canadians to ditch the "loonie," as the country's dollar is fondly called, and join a monetary union with the United States.

  • Sex sometimes includes a heartening oration, but usually toward the end, urging you on to mutual victory; such remarks are rarely delivered at halftime, when you're lurking in the locker room, glum and battered.

  • Congressional leaders from both parties are now urging the president not to "rule out any option."

  • In March, New York City Council Speaker Peter Vallone issued a press release urging the Justice Department to intervene because Loew's Cineplex had just raised ticket prices in Manhattan to $9.50.


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