the urge

Example Sentences

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According to the team, both taste preferences and long-standing habits may drive the urge to add salt.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026

Resisting the urge to chase the stock is the prudent move.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Both resisted the urge to panic and swim against the current, instead opting to float and await rescue as was taught to them by their father years before at their local swimming pool.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

They’re the uncomfortable ones: the capacity to be wrong in public and stay curious; to sit with a question your phone could answer in three seconds and resist the urge to reach for it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

I fight the urge to shrink into the floor.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer