pressing – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of pressing

Adjective: pressing

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Perifrastic

Comparativemore pressing
Superlativemost pressing

Sample Sentences

  • “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.” [1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 75.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC:]
  • And now the world will have to pause a little, and take up that other side of the problem, and in right earnest strive for some solution of that. For it has become pressing. [1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 3, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book I (Proem), page 20:]
  • The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made. [1951 March, E. J. Tyler, “Post-War Recovery on the Netherlands Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:]
  • Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption. [2013 January 3, Luke Harding, Uki Goni, “Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'”, in The Guardian:]
  • Four Japanese torpedo boats launch an attack on the Suvorov. Despite burning steadily for several hours and now taking a torpedo to the stern, the ship still lashes out at its attackers with a few remaining guns. With no pressing need to continue the attack to closer range, the torpedo boats fall back, noting the position for a night attack if Suvorov survives that long. [2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any worse..., archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:]
  • You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go. [1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter 2, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:]
  • He was pressing and persuasive. [1908, Joseph Conrad, The Duel:]

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