Urges
[ə:dʒz]
Examples
- Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Edward answers by fresh assurances of secrecy, and again urges on him the necessity of procuring some venison. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Come over to my place'--he urged as one urges a drunken man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Hope beckons and sorrow urges us, the heart beats high with expectation, and this eager desire of change must be an omen of success. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The third sentence urges greater safeguards against undesirable marriages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Say yes,' Wegg naturally urges. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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