Example sentences for: exhortations

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

  • So Lefty's exhortations on the subject of wise-guy etiquette--carry your money in a wad, not a wallet, lose the facial hair--have an unusual zeal: Lefty is looking for another shot at fatherhood.

  • The mechanism for implementing these exhortations would be the new grant of congressional authority in the final clause of the new amendments: “The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of [these articles].”

  • The narrative is incessantly interrupted by cinematic placards, exhortations, lectures about staying in school (in the form of letters from the boy's dead mother, played by Lonette McKee), and inserts depicting the evils of drugs and alcohol.

  • For the last decade, Lee has been attempting to craft a new kind of artfully slapdash film syntax--one that mixes jivey jump-cuts with Brechtian exhortations, that tries to build immense dramatic structures out of dissonance and opposition.

  • In this jeremiad, males are viewed as the “enemy,” and are so characterized throughout the book, which concludes with exhortations to engage the foe and a strident call to arms (though not men's).


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