Urging can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| urge - force or impel in an indicated direction; "I urged him to finish his studies" | ||
| urge - spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" | ||
| urge - push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" | ||
Noun |
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| urging - the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging | ||
| urging - a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" | ||
| urging - insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" |
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| 1. | noun | That was how 26-year-old Lieutenant Bush came to Montgomery, at his father's urging . . . | |
| 2. | noun | Why this urge to travel? | |
| 3. | noun | The urge to protect and gather them all in is almost overwhelming, and makes me more grateful for the blessings I have. | |
| 4. | noun | All of these sports and many others are dominated by the human urge to aim at something. | |
| 5. | noun | All forms of life have an instinctive urge to survive. | |
| 6. | noun | He felt a sudden urge to write a novel. | |
| 7. | noun | The urge to brag on his recent successes was irresistible. | |
| 8. | noun | The convenience store was overflowing with girls, I didn't have the urge to push my way through them and went home as I was. | |
| 9. | noun | I have an urge to buy something. | |
| 10. | noun | Tom felt the urge to run away. | |
| 11. | noun | Tom felt a sudden urge to leave the room. | |
| 12. | noun | Tom felt an urge to kill Mary. | |
| 13. | noun | I couldn't resist the urge to applaud. | |
| 14. | noun | I never wrote to her, despite the urge to do so. | |
| 15. | noun | Tom resisted the urge to scream. | |
| 16. | verb | Rejecting the urging of his physician father to study medicine, Hawking chose instead to concentrate on mathematics and physics. | |
| 17. | verb | Tom has been urging me to join the army. | |
| 18. | verb | Police are urging people not to pick up hitchhikers as they search for two prisoners on the run after escaping from jail. | |
| 19. | verb | They're urging caution. | |
| 20. | verb | Sami went to see a counselor at Layla's urging. | |
| 21. | verb | When they arose on the morrow they were more than ever inflamed with passion, and whilst urging on their flocks they longed to meet again so that they might renew their kisses. | |
| 22. | verb | But Venus round them on the way / wrapt a thick mist, a mantle of dark air, / that none should see them, none should touch nor stay, / nor, urging idle questions, breed delay. | |
| 23. | verb | E'en such was Dido; so with joyous mien, / urging the business of her rising state, / among the concourse passed the Tyrian queen. | |
| 24. | verb | Health officials, including the U.S. surgeon general, are urging parents to get their children vaccinated. | |
| 25. | verb | When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. | |
| 26. | verb | The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging nations to implement a series of cost-effective, anti-tobacco measures it says will help their populations quit smoking. | |
| 27. | verb | The CDC is urging everyone to stop using e-cigarettes. | |
| 28. | verb | Frequent traveler Francesca Domenella said, at her father's urging, she started wearing a surgical mask after returning from China. | |
| 29. | verb | The World Health Organization is urging countries affected by the coronavirus to enact containment measures as the best way to slow down the spread of this deadly disease. | |
| 30. | verb | Algerians are urging their officials to be more transparent. |
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| noun | |
| That was how 26-year-old Lieutenant Bush came to Montgomery, at his father's urging . . . |
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| Why this urge to travel? |
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| The urge to protect and gather them all in is almost overwhelming, and makes me more grateful for the blessings I have. |
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| All of these sports and many others are dominated by the human urge to aim at something. | |
| All forms of life have an instinctive urge to survive. | |
| He felt a sudden urge to write a novel. | |
| The urge to brag on his recent successes was irresistible. | |
| The convenience store was overflowing with girls, I didn't have the urge to push my way through them and went home as I was. | |
| I have an urge to buy something. | |
| Tom felt the urge to run away. | |
| Tom felt a sudden urge to leave the room. | |
| Tom felt an urge to kill Mary. | |
| I couldn't resist the urge to applaud. | |
| I never wrote to her, despite the urge to do so. | |
| Tom resisted the urge to scream. | |
| verb | |
| Rejecting the urging of his physician father to study medicine, Hawking chose instead to concentrate on mathematics and physics. | |
| Tom has been urging me to join the army. | |
| Police are urging people not to pick up hitchhikers as they search for two prisoners on the run after escaping from jail. | |
| They're urging caution. | |
| Sami went to see a counselor at Layla's urging. | |
| When they arose on the morrow they were more than ever inflamed with passion, and whilst urging on their flocks they longed to meet again so that they might renew their kisses. | |
| But Venus round them on the way / wrapt a thick mist, a mantle of dark air, / that none should see them, none should touch nor stay, / nor, urging idle questions, breed delay. | |
| E'en such was Dido; so with joyous mien, / urging the business of her rising state, / among the concourse passed the Tyrian queen. | |
| Health officials, including the U.S. surgeon general, are urging parents to get their children vaccinated. | |
| When Naomi saw that she was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her. | |
| The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging nations to implement a series of cost-effective, anti-tobacco measures it says will help their populations quit smoking. | |
| The CDC is urging everyone to stop using e-cigarettes. | |
| Frequent traveler Francesca Domenella said, at her father's urging, she started wearing a surgical mask after returning from China. | |
| The World Health Organization is urging countries affected by the coronavirus to enact containment measures as the best way to slow down the spread of this deadly disease. | |
| Algerians are urging their officials to be more transparent. | |