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.
  • Lloyd exhorted the crowd a few times.
    — ABC News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Some cynics are bound to exhort that this isn’t worth much of a hullabaloo.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Gluck exhorted workers to bring him their ideas, to share in his passion.
    — Sarah Schweitzer, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2019
  • At the entrance to each, visitors are exhorted to check in via a time clock.
    — Barbara Schreiber, charlotteobserver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The ad features Kaepernick exhorting all of us to think big and aim high.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2019
  • In the old days, children were exhorted to be good because God sees all.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 4 Nov. 2025
  • There is also a growing rhetoric that exhorts the virtues of blue-collar labor.
    — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Babbitt’s mother exhorts the crowd at a rally for her daughter.
    — Adam Fleming Petty, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Liberation goes all the way, and in doing so, exhorts us all to keep going.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Others would exhort that the end result is what counts, not how the inner machinations work.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • On cue, Kittle rose from the bench and began exhorting the crowd as well as his teammates.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Some would exhort that the generative AI has passed the buck.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Coaches exhorted George to keep shooting — and so did Poole.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • All of them opposed the proposal and exhorted city officials to drop the idea.
    — Arun Sivasankaran, Sun-Sentinel.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Pon’s guidance explains the purpose of the orders and exhorts agency leaders to act with haste.
    — Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 9 July 2018
  • 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
  • Other lyrics, like one in which Blow exhorted a girl in brown to stop messin’ around, bore the stamp of the rapper himself.
    — David Kamp, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The president had exhorted the league to discipline players who don’t stand for the anthem.
    — Michael C. Bender, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • Days after Kirk was killed, his wife, Erika, exhorted his followers to join a church.
    — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Western countries exhorted Uganda to halt the crackdown and threatened to cut aid to the country.
    — Emma Bubola, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023

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