How to Use exertion in a Sentence

exertion

noun

• He was panting from the exertion of climbing the stairs.
• In times of stress or exertion, the blood flow in one artery would cut off.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
• Like a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, except the pot is a cold drink and the rainbow is physical exertion.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2022
• To be a top bodybuilder takes countless hours of exertion in the weight room and the consumption of absurd amounts of food.
  — Desmond Butler, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• Strapping a motor to a bike turns out to alter more than just speed and exertion.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022
• My heart beat faster and my breathing got heavier—and not from exertion.
  — Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 13 July 2023
• Then there was noise—quick steps, a huffing and puffing, an exertion.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• The feature's chief purpose is to give you an exertion goal to hit and track your progress toward it in real time.
  — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2022
• Turns out that was about the extent of his physical exertion this week.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 24 Sep. 2021
• If all this exertion is calling you to get a massage, that can be arranged, too.
  — Jean Chen Smith, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2021
• In the wild, these birds start packing on weight in spring and fall in preparation for the extreme exertion of their journeys.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• The patient suffered shortness of breath on exertion and chest pain.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
• My mother, her wiry black hair pointing every which way, her face sweaty from the exertion, put on her new red oven mitts and opened the oven door.
  — Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2021
• Before the test, warm up with a 10-minute walk or jog (or a dynamic warmup), keeping your pace and exertion easy.
  — Ali Nolan, SELF, 16 June 2022
• With sweat pouring down and her face flush from the physical exertion, O’Halloran crossed the finish line to a loud ovation.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2020
• From across the galaxy, Leia reaches out to Kylo, dying from the exertion.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• The watch will show your cardio load to give you a sense of your exertion during your workouts and how hard your heart is working each week.
  — Andrew Gebhart, PCMAG, 13 Aug. 2024
• The physical exertion was only made worse by what had to be an emotional toll in the past 11 days.
  — Ryan Wood, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2021
• If outside, try to stay out of the sun and limit physical exertion.
  — Steven Martinez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2021
• But for some of us, after a year-plus of staying at home, travel (and the exertion that entails) quickly took its toll.
  — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2021
• This form of the substance is used for energy exertion.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• Lynchings had long been an exertion of power by whites.
  — Ainissa G. Ramirez, Scientific American, 8 July 2020
• But Hereford looked more rehearsed against the press in the third quarter, and Dundalk’s endurance waned under the tax of full-court exertion.
  — Colin Murphy, Baltimore Sun, 13 Jan. 2023
• But the physical exertion is too much for A-Train, whose heart gives out, leaving him lying alone on the asphalt.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 24 June 2022
• But unlike most of them, Shyne begins class already in pain, and the exertion puts her to sleep 90 minutes after it’s over.
  — Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 June 2022
• But the Queen isn’t keen on repeating the exertion more than necessary.
  — Bryan Kozlowski, Glamour, 9 Nov. 2020
• The slight pain is a sign of demanding physical exertion, and the price of getting outdoors.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• Vitaly, struggling to manage two backpacks and a large cardboard box, climbed up from the riverbank to the road above, barely able to speak from the exertion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• The effort to exonerate herself in her own mind leads her to rituals of exertion and self-punishment.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
• Prolonged heat exposure coupled with the intense exertion of a match or race can quickly turn dangerous.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024