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
• There is plenty to exhort, and lots of talk between songs.
  — Tim Davis, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The generic Democratic soundtrack has been updated; between political speeches, a d.j. cranked R. & B. and hip-hop from the nineties and two-thousands and exhorted the crowd.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2024
• To call ourselves to such mutual respect across political lines is to exhort us to moral revolution.
  — Danielle Allen, Washington Post, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024