How to Use exhortation in a Sentence

exhortation

noun
  • 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
  • Charles’ exhortations drown out all the other sounds in the tunnel.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • At the bottom of each press release was a phone number and the exhortation join us!
    — Aris Roussinos, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • From the ether came a voice with an erotic tale replete with moaning and exhortations.
    — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
  • 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
  • Smits has taken to heart those exhortations, to take advantage of his size across the board.
    — Michael Osipoff, Post-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Here’s Slate with an exhortation urging victims of the breach to go claim what’s theirs.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 27 July 2019
  • 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
  • Despite the exhortations, no model scored above 2% on the test.
    — Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 3 Dec. 2024
  • But there's a limit to what can be accomplished by exhortation.
    — Samuel Goldman, Star Tribune, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Amid nearly two hours of speeches and exhortations for change came a moment of silence.
    — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The jokes were followed all evening by strong exhortations toward activism.
    — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 20 June 2017
  • But those exhortations don’t seem to have quelled the backroom infighting.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 17 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Her voice was loud and hoarse, calling out comments or exhortations concerning the game.
    — Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The ad just stuck to King's exhortation to become great by serving others.
    — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • But the exhortation to taste without eating is a chef’s form of narcissism.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Caminero’s sprint included several mid-stride hops and fist pumps and exhortations to the crowd.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Every exhortation on the pitch is meaningful, and everyone in the stands cannot say a word.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2023
  • The flurry of exhortations are meant to influence the Fed’s planning, which has yet to be set in stone.
    — Akshat Rathi, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • Who knows — this one might, in tiny increments, one acoustic guitar lick or exhortation to live fully at a time.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Oct. 2025
  • That’s not exactly the makings of a punchy, call-and-response exhortation.
    — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • But Nancy’s exhortation to writers was more than just a statement of faith in their influence.
    — Sarah Watling, Time, 13 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 man who made that Ted Lasso-style exhortation went down to defeat on Tuesday.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • 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

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