desperate urge

Frequency: 8.015.1 per million words

Used to describe a very strong and urgent feeling.

urgeADJECTIVE + urge

Categories:

desperate

Examples (10)

  • I felt a desperate urge to run away from the overwhelming noise.
  • She fought the desperate urge to laugh during the serious meeting.
  • He had a desperate urge to confess his secret to someone.
  • Suddenly, a desperate urge to smoke overcame him.
  • The desperate urge to survive kept them moving through the snow.
  • I had a desperate urge to call him, but I knew I shouldn't.
  • She took a deep breath, fighting a desperate urge to scream.
  • After weeks in isolation, he felt a desperate urge for human contact.
  • There was a desperate urge to find water as the heat increased.
  • As a mother, she felt a desperate urge to protect her child.