How to Use exert in a Sentence

exert

verb

• He had to exert all of his strength to move the stone.
• He exerts a lot of influence on the other members of the committee.
• Cole’s stuff is still solid but he’s clearly exerted a great deal of effort this inning.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
• The ability to exert self-control is often referred to as willpower.
  — Womensmedia, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Passwords are a highly important tool to keep crooks out of online accounts and something over which consumers exert a lot of control.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 May 2022
• And yet the pull of complex, powerful women continues to exert itself on Close.
  — Natasha Pearlman, Glamour, 6 May 2022
• Devon’s mithai shops exert their influence across America.
  — Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2024
• The approach transforms what could have been sensationalist schlock into a nuanced study of trauma and grief and the emotional hold the dead still exert on the living.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
• That’s where the plastics industry is trying to exert its influence, my colleague Susanne Rust reports.
  — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• It’s for the institutional investors and wealthy people who invest in venture capital funds to exert influence.
  — Sallie Krawcheck, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022
• Trump on May 22 urged states to allow houses of worship to open immediately as his advisers continued to exert pressure.
  — The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2022
• Alternately, approach No. 2 is a high-frequency strategy wherein people exert a jerky, rapidly changing force on the mug.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2022
• Once the seed has sprouted, some seedlings are able to exert enough force to push through the fine opening in the asphalt.
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• The system may be the center of the universe, but the stars exert a gravity of their own.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The thruster’s two hydraulic cylinders will exert force on the clamp, pushing the pipe and MTBM through the mountain.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
• That is about 10 times the pressure that is exerted at the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trenches.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• But Valdez also knows how and when to pull back and exert pointed restraint.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• This means that light shining on an object can exert a force.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
• The winds will exert a chill, so dress for winter even as sunshine pushes highs above 50 for most.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• In classical mechanics, the Sun exerts a force on the Earth equal in magnitude to the force that the Earth exerts back on the Sun.
  — Larry M. Silverberg, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The high gears, however, came up a bit short, as there was no way to pedal fast enough to exert force when the assist was maxed out.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023
• In the end, the debate highlights, once more, how much control Musk can exert over public goods, Lewandowsky says.
  — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 8 Feb. 2023
• The Celtics, 76ers, and Knicks were banking on the Bucks having to exert effort in that series before moving on to the second round.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• In China, public homage to the dead often serves as a method of last resort to exert pressure on the living.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The exam also found the injuries were not consistent with child-sized hands or the level of force a child could exert.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2024
• Well, hypertension constricts the blood vessels, and this causes the blood to exert more pressure on the artery walls.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2023
• Who is this person who exerts this kind of pressure intensely on the people around him?
  — CBS News, 30 July 2023
• Through her tale, Carr depicts the ways in which women can care for and exert power over one another.
  — The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Through her tale, Carr depicts the ways in which women can care for and exert power over one another.
  — The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
• The scarcity of homes for sale will continue to exert upward pressure on prices.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024