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How to use urging in a sentence

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Throughout the evening, trendily attired party hosts and hostesses kept urging partygoers to get onto the dance floor.
How credible would my list be if I didn't list shoes after I just finished urging you to get a shoeshine kit?
Just last week, leaflets urging young people to shop drug dealers were posted through household letter-boxes and handed out in Tesco.
Staffordshire Police is urging parents to dissuade their children from taking part in the Halloween activity known as trick or treat.
Rosaline Gallagher was there urging me on and I got great courage from that.
At his urging, I donned protective clothing and headed off in search of this tragic new affliction.
We hope he will also join with us in urging the Lib Dem executive to now make headway on just such an initiative.
Help groups have praised a campaign urging victims of domestic violence not to suffer in silence.
At his inquest the jury added a rider to its verdict urging further research into Roaccutane and its side-effects.
The father lived in various places with different people until he obtained his present residence after much urging by the society.
He lined up with young players and, at their urging, signed the shirts on their backs.
The same logo hangs over cabin toilets and on deck rails, with signs urging passengers not to throw trash overboard.
The parents of a boy hit by a car yards from their front door have refused to take down a series of homemade signs urging drivers to slow down.
They live opposite a flashing sign urging drivers to reduce their speed to 30 mph.
Outraged by the Government's threat to their sub post offices, people have signed petitions and written letters urging ministers to think again.
She refused my urging to go to the emergency room and assured me that she would make an appointment to see her doctor post-haste.
She refused to tell me anything at first but as time passed, and with the continuous urging, she finally did open up to me.
They reacted by urging the researchers not to confuse forced marriages with the traditional practice of arranged marriages.
It is less certain, however, that his urging of greater distinctiveness upon fellow believers is the best way forward.
They continued talking, and she continued drinking, no doubt at his urging, until her cup was empty.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Chronic constipation with hemorrhoids and continual urging to stool without result.
Somebody had persuaded him to believe that I was urging the bey to close the principality to him.
The strident strains of the Washington Post burst out on the air, urging the cheerers to even greater efforts.
There was instant and clamant disapproval, each one of us urging an unquestionable claim to the guardianship of the orphan Menace.
This phalanx, entirely lawless, moves down upon a farmer who is urging two horses along a cloddy furrow, doing his fall plowing.
But I checked him in that Falstaffian vein, urging considerations of time and cookery.
That crape on the Whip assumed the force of a call to the Church, urging to self-denial and to active effort.
But, notwithstanding his tears and lamentations, he kept urging on his dapple to get far enough from the cart.
He was standing up in the sleigh and urging on his horse, which was on the dead run.
The displacer in his body pouch pulsed and tugged, urging him to be on his way toward the distant reactor room.
There is no sense in urging machinery when Eolus himself gives you good knots for nothing.
He engaged some boys to grabble out the nuts from the sand beds, urging care, but many of the best were broken and injured.
Girlie's second great-aunt stayed too, upon urging, and they all talked on and on.
The animals responded nobly to our urging, though their nostrils were blood-red, and their quivering haunches flaked with spume.
Georges was in high favor with the khan, and was importunately urging the condemnation of his rival.
In recent years, we see the inspectorate urging that even children of tender years ought not to live in the workhouse.
Irresistibly urging, intangibly irritating, perpetually suggesting, they had prepared him for the dominion of Jane Holland.
Mexico has no right to jeopard the peace of the world by urging any longer a useless and fruitless contest.
The chuckles of this poor man were like cuts from a whip to Therese, lashing and urging her on.
I have spoken to lorimer again and again, urging him to control himself for her sake.
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