adverb

• 1In a way which requires immediate action or attention.

  ‘housing is urgently needed’

  More example sentences

  • ‘this matter has to be addressed urgently’
  • ‘police are urgently seeking witnesses to the attack’
  • ‘What they most urgently need is basic freedom, without which democracy cannot be built.’
  • ‘This issue needs attention desperately and urgently.’
  • ‘This now urgently requires leadership by personal example far beyond platitudinous inanities about 'free markets'.’
  • ‘It needed a new kitchen and bathroom, the windows needed replacing urgently, and the roof didn't have much life left.’
  • ‘The intervention of parental authority is urgently called for.’

  1. 1.1In an earnest and persistent manner.
     ‘she whispered urgently in my ear’
     More example sentences

     • ‘The process is repeated, this time with horns providing counterpoint to the urgently strummed guitars.’
     • ‘I repeatedly, urgently ask my boyfriend, "What's happening?"’
     • ‘Just then, the servant enters the room and urgently asks Mrs. Bird to follow him into the kitchen.’
     • ‘In the cramped space at campaign headquarters, he was shouting urgently across a phone line to his lieutenants.’
     • ‘As he was about to usher Elizabeth into the small dark room, a voice from above urgently cried his name.’