How to Use exhortation in a Sentence

exhortation

noun
  • Not all Democrats were swayed by those kind of exhortations.
    Emily Cadei, sacbee, 12 Jan. 2018
  • At the bottom of each press release was a phone number and the exhortation join us!
    Aris Roussinos, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Charles’ exhortations drown out all the other sounds in the tunnel.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Here’s Slate with an exhortation urging victims of the breach to go claim what’s theirs.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 July 2019
  • Not to mention the shot glass bearing his exhortation to enivrez-vous sans cesse!
    Ange Mlinko, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Do these types of exhortations—the press straightening their spines and screaming down the right—still work?
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This kind of exhortation is as vague and bombastic as old calls for regime change in Iraq.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • Biden's exhortation was less a reach for the stars above than an effort to help the nation regain its footing on the ground.
    Susan Page, USA TODAY, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Smits has taken to heart those exhortations, to take advantage of his size across the board.
    Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2018
  • From the ether came a voice with an erotic tale replete with moaning and exhortations.
    Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • Those cautions were treated like a parental exhortation to their kids to get off TikTok and brush their teeth.
    Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica, 10 May 2020
  • The birds were pecking away at the seeds scattered inside their pen, oblivious to the exhortations of the patrons all around them.
    Tim Carman and Fritz Hahn, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
  • Nowhere were the exhortations more pronounced than in the Florida Keys, which could take a direct hit.
    Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The ad just stuck to King's exhortation to become great by serving others.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The man who made that Ted Lasso-style exhortation went down to defeat on Tuesday.
    Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • Every exhortation on the pitch is meaningful, and everyone in the stands cannot say a word.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • When Houston batters get to two strikes, for instance, the dugout comes alive with exhortations to extend the at-bat further.
    Tom Verducci, SI.com, 21 June 2017
  • The verses are frequently read as Jesus’s exhortation to care for the poor, sick, and marginalized.
    Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 29 Oct. 2018
  • The profiles start with a propulsive bang: Tony the cabbie, a fan favorite, and his rough-and-tumble Cockney exhortations.
    Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2019
  • But the exhortation to taste without eating is a chef’s form of narcissism.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Amid nearly two hours of speeches and exhortations for change came a moment of silence.
    Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • That’s not exactly the makings of a punchy, call-and-response exhortation.
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The exhortation overlooked the fact that back in 1776, African Americans were enslaved.
    Jenice Armstrong, Philly.com, 22 May 2018
  • The final hours of the conference were a desultory exchange of business cards and exhortation to keep up one’s chin.
    Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The sharp smell of chlorine was the first to hit my senses, then splashing, music and the exhortation of a coach motivating his swimmers.
    Sara Clarkson, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • But those exhortations don’t seem to have quelled the backroom infighting.
    Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 17 Apr. 2017
  • His exhortation fell on deaf ears amid the din of rallying cries, which by then included false reports of Tusken’s death.
    Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
  • Perhaps more than anything else, what has sucked all of the joy out of the social internet in its current form is its exhortation to be useful.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 21 May 2018
  • For Mailer, a passage like that is really a kind of gauntlet, an exhortation to all of us to turn away from the machine and plug back into something elemental.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 July 2024
  • Gottfried’s messages are generally cheerful, plucky, full of exhortations to remain strong.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024

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