Example sentences for: exhortation

How can you use “exhortation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As historian Richard Current noted, the phrase "Go South, young man" supplanted Horace Greeley's famous exhortation to head West.

  • South Park abounds in screamingly campy parodies, from the opening ensemble to Terrance and Phillip's peppy rap duet "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle-Fucker" to the principal's exhortation to substitute "bum," "poo," and the phlegmatic "M'kay" for, respectively, "ass," "shit," and "fuck" while leading a Busby Berkeley-ish dance line.

  • (Another Nelson exhortation to his sailors--"You must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil"--was not quoted anywhere, but was being widely followed in the spirit.)

  • Kill the Christian Democrats Kill is not an appropriate equivalent of mueran , which is better translated as `death to': it is not an exhortation `to wipe out,' merely an expectation or hope that the object of execration go to an early grave.

  • Much of the effort is little more than exhortation, like the Commerce Department's plan to hold four town hall meetings to examine the shortage and discuss ways to alleviate it.


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