How to Use exhort in a Sentence

exhort

verb
  • He exhorted his people to take back their land.
  • She exhorted her listeners to support the proposition.
  • O'Byrne sat in the boat and exhorted the kid with each stroke.
    Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 23 June 2017
  • But at one point in the first half Curry turned to the crowd to exhort them.
    Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Those that exhort that our minds might be stuck in the mud are lacking in faith in the strength of our minds.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Even Ikolo’s parents joined the crowd to exhort their son to tell Titi the reason for his change of heart.
    Imbolo Mbue, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
  • A dozen tiny kids from the church daycare on Lancaster are exhorted to avoid the cone, the slide.
    Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
  • The ad features Kaepernick exhorting all of us to think big and aim high.
    Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Some would exhort that the generative AI has passed the buck.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The depth of her sacrifice exhorts us to leave no stone unturned.
    Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Sep. 2017
  • At the entrance to each, visitors are exhorted to check in via a time clock.
    Barbara Schreiber, charlotteobserver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Gluck exhorted workers to bring him their ideas, to share in his passion.
    Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In the clubhouse with wet cheeks and happy feet, Antonucci jumped and exhorted her horse down the stretch.
    Joe Drape, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • At Snack Boys, Rule No. 8 exhorts everyone to have a good, um, freaking time.
    Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 May 2018
  • Brady came out fired up for this one from the beginning, exhorting the crowd in the end zone opposite the Lighthouse at Gillette.
    BostonGlobe.com, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Late one night in May 1964, Dorothy Cotton stood inside a Methodist church and exhorted a crowd of civil rights marchers to take to the streets with love, not hate.
    Harrison Smith, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2018
  • Two, Daniels is one of those old-school guys who exhorts the virtues of lining up and just knocking your opponent into the dirt.
    Andy Benoit, The MMQB, 10 July 2017
  • Deanna bakes these girls lasagna, boosts their self-esteem and exhorts them to enjoy the power and beauty of their youth.
    Glenn Whipp, latimes.com, 10 May 2018
  • Yet in the midst of that American hell, here was Johnson, exhorting his people to joy.
    Leonard Pitts Jr, The Mercury News, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Gunn exhorts the audience to embrace the quirky, the messy, the flawed, to strive for connection, not precision in this world and beyond.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Pon’s guidance explains the purpose of the orders and exhorts agency leaders to act with haste.
    Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • Members of a Christian group stood outside the venue exhorting Elvis fans to stay away from Dahne's black magic.
    Douglas Perry, OregonLive.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • All of them opposed the proposal and exhorted city officials to drop the idea.
    Arun Sivasankaran, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Babbitt’s mother exhorts the crowd at a rally for her daughter.
    Adam Fleming Petty, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Western countries exhorted Uganda to halt the crackdown and threatened to cut aid to the country.
    Emma Bubola, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The president had exhorted the league to discipline players who don’t stand for the anthem.
    Michael C. Bender, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • At times of poor performance, critics of the NHS always exhort the service to be more efficient.
    The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • Everything has the patina of an old VHS tape, and cuts from the soundtrack to Drive exhort us to make nightcalls and wear sweet, sweet scorpion jackets.
    Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica, 20 May 2020
  • In the celebration that rocked Oracle late into the evening, Curry swayed with his daughter in his arms, exhorting the crowd to join in.
    Ailene Voisin, sacbee.com, 12 June 2017
  • At that point, Spoelstra might as well have again been in front of his players, exhorting with exuberance.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023

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