exhorted
Example Sentences
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During a commercial break at last year’s Oscars, he got up onstage and exhorted the crowd to get up and dance as a toast to Los Angeles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Obviously reading from a prepared script, she exhorted Angelenos to help one another and expressed confidence that we would rebuild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025
“How will she remember this?” she exhorted her students.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The imperative of continuing hefty Western military and financial assistance to Ukraine was underscored repeatedly by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, who exhorted participants to act, as he rushed from one high-level meeting to the next.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2024
Black men and women cheered and exhorted us from yards alongside the streets.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
