verb

• Strongly encourage or urge (someone) to do something.

  ‘I exhorted her to be a good child’

  More example sentences

  • ‘‘Come on, you guys,’ exhorted Linda’
  • ‘He lauded the school for encouraging sports and exhorted young sportsmen to make strides in sports and academics.’
  • ‘The counsellor exhorts him to unswervingly stick to his ART regimen along with a rich, nutritional diet.’
  • ‘To get workers charged up, he exhorts his troops to act like entrepreneurs, take risks, and own up to failure quickly.’
  • ‘However, our co-ops have a crucial role to play, which must go well beyond exhorting farmers to get bigger and leaner.’
  • ‘She gently admonished the translator, a man, by exhorting him not to be chauvinistic by distorting facts.’
  • ‘Apart from condemning the U.S. and its allies as well as warning against their plans of further aggression, the documentary exhorts the people to boycott the U.S. products.’
  • ‘He simply exhorts parents, in the tradition of the uplifting revivalist, to do the things that will focus their kids on school and prepare them for better lives.’
  • ‘He's in constant mobile communication with an unseen editor who, like a devil on his shoulder, exhorts Dave to distort and exaggerate the story.’
  • ‘China's national anthem exhorts its citizens to move forward and resist foreign aggressors.’
  • ‘Meanwhile, Mr. Deshprabhu exhorts future students of animation to specialise in specific software.’
  • ‘With a pointing finger, he exhorts the crowd of young law students to stop the assault on the powerless.’
  • ‘The big man repeatedly exhorts his fans to be leaders not followers, but like good followers, they obey his every word.’
  • ‘From the back end of a bus, the City of York Council exhorts us to ‘cycle to work for a healthy heart’.’
  • ‘Moral consequentialism exhorts us to choose between different modes of life as well as different choices within each mode.’
  • ‘It exhorts viewers to fight against divisive forces that disrupt the peace of a nation, says Sundar.’
  • ‘The government exhorts us to get off the roads and onto the railway, but it may not have considered the opposite proposition.’
  • ‘He exhorts me not to take the problems of the world so seriously, and to have more faith in the ways of Allah.’
  • ‘Another passage was the one where Miss Brodie exhorts her girls to be sure to recognise their prime and to live it to the full.’
  • ‘She exhorts her audience to put up banners and posters on the highways and byways.’
  • ‘She exhorts parents to teach their young that there is beauty and strength in diversity.’

  Synonyms

  urge, encourage, call on, enjoin, adjure, charge, try to persuade, press, pressure, put pressure on, use pressure on, pressurize, lean on, push

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