A sense of urgency filled the air.

Meaning: Everyone felt like they needed to do something right away.

Choice of Words: Sense means a feeling or awareness of something. Urgency means a feeling of needing to do something immediately. Filled means to make something full or to occupy all of the space in something. Air means the mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth. When you put them together, "A sense of urgency filled the air" means that there was a feeling of needing to do something immediately in the area around.

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