Below you will find example sentences with "urgent action". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Urgent Action in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: urgent
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 16
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 27.5 words

Words in this phrase

urgent action

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • urgent can mean: Requiring immediate attention. Frequent word
  • action can mean: The effort of performing or doing something. Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and take urgent action to tackle 1× are taking urgent action as a 1× called for urgent action after flash 1× called for urgent action in its 1× called for urgent action this week 1× called for urgent action to achieve 1× called for urgent action to address 1× calls for urgent action to cut 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a recent report 1× a spokesperson from 1× at craigmillar medical 1× boshoff emphasised the 1× colorado river reservoirs 1× councillors have called 1×

Common sentence endings:

action is needed 1× and their families 1× be living in 1× could be exacerbated 1× entirely by 2040 1× exodus of talent 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

needed 4× housing 3× water 3× public 2× crisis 2× citizens 2× people 2× government 2× warned 2× human 2× risk 2× hunger 2×

Related phrases

urgent need climate action urgent care action movies class action strike action collective action strict action take action action lawsuit

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around urgent:

urgent need 20× urgent care 19×

Just before it in the phrase index:

urged people urban planning urban growth urban development urban areas urban area

Just after it in the phrase index:

urgent care urgent need urging anyone urging people usa gymnastics usa inc

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

urgent need urgent care

Same ending:

climate action class action strike action collective action strict action take action

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "urgent action" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and take urgent action to tackle, are taking urgent action as a, needed, housing and water stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with urgent need, climate action, urgent care, urgent need and urgent care, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with urgent action

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

At Craigmillar Medical Practice, in Edinburgh, Dr Carey Lunan agrees urgent action is needed. (14 words)

Meanwhile the Spanish government has demanded transparency and urgent action from the football federation. (14 words)

Councillors have called for urgent action after flash floods left human excrement on residential streets. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

And they are among the hundreds of U.S. citizens who are trapped in Gaza as the Biden administration, rather than treating them as people who are deserving of urgent action from their government, has allowed them to become more like bargaining chips. (43 words)

Expectedly, at the beginning of this year, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, declared that about 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 (lean season) if urgent action is not taken. (41 words)

Long before I knew of the radical similarities between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, their anti-capitalist perspectives, their religious roots, their urgent action toward human and civil rights, I sensed a mutuality between the two of them. (39 words)

Example sentences (20)

Earlier, as delegates were entering, Action for Public Housing NSW organised a protest calling on Labor to end public housing demolitions and sell-offs and take urgent action to tackle the housing crisis.

And they are among the hundreds of U.S. citizens who are trapped in Gaza as the Biden administration, rather than treating them as people who are deserving of urgent action from their government, has allowed them to become more like bargaining chips.

A recent report by the Fawcett Society warned that without urgent action, the under-representation of women in politics could be exacerbated.

A spokesperson from Salford City Council said: “In light of the national shortage of experienced social workers, we are taking urgent action as a Greater Manchester group to find local solutions.

At Craigmillar Medical Practice, in Edinburgh, Dr Carey Lunan agrees urgent action is needed.

Boshoff emphasised the need for urgent action to mitigate the risks associated with climate change, as failure to act now could result in huge financial losses and irreversible damage to the planet.

Colorado River reservoirs have fallen to alarming levels, prompting growing calls for urgent action to cut water use in seven states.

Councillors have called for urgent action after flash floods left human excrement on residential streets.

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Coupled with advances in science aimed at decoding and rewriting of brain functions are widespread and pose a discernible risk, Farahany argues, and one that requires urgent action to bring under agreed controls.

Dunford called for urgent action to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 6, clean water and sanitation for all.

Expectedly, at the beginning of this year, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, declared that about 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 (lean season) if urgent action is not taken.

Harriett Baldwin, MP for West-Worcestershire, called for urgent action this week on enforcing a new speed limit for a 'dangerous stretch' of the A46.

ICS chief executive Averil Power said: “Urgent action is also needed to address the impact of the cost-of-living crisis on cancer patients and their families.

If urgent action is not taken against plastic waste, this is what the class V student of Changangkha Middle Secondary School, Ugyen Sonam Pelbar, imagines the world he will be living in.

In her keynote remarks during the opening, Zambian Vice-President Mutale Nalumango called for urgent action to address hunger and malnutrition in Africa to help advance the continent’s socio-economic transformation.

Iraq's Ministry of Water Resources warned that urgent action is needed to prevent these vital rivers from drying up entirely by 2040.

Long before I knew of the radical similarities between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, their anti-capitalist perspectives, their religious roots, their urgent action toward human and civil rights, I sensed a mutuality between the two of them.

Meanwhile the Spanish government has demanded transparency and urgent action from the football federation.

Ms Woods said Blind Citizens Australia called for urgent action in its submission because the issue directly impacted more than 500,000 people with blindness or low vision.

Scottish Trades Union Congress and the Broadcasting, Entertainment, Communications and Theatre Union say urgent action is needed over Creative Scotland’s future to reverse an exodus of talent.

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