"I exhort" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a transitive verb and means to urge or encourage someone to do something. It is usually used in a formal or persuasive context. Example: I exhort all citizens to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming election.
So I exhort all my fellow Britons to embrace change and reinvent our culinary heritage.
You've got to get out there, and I exhort everyone who works for me to do just that.
I exhort each and every one of your readers to take up the oud, or at least buy one from an Iraqi luthier.
I exhort you to a generous solidarity and to the return of economics and finance to an ethical approach which favors human beings.
"I exhort you to fight every day against corruption, against trafficking, against war, against division, against organised crime, against human smuggling".
Having just promulgated, at the Council, a historic Truce of God, which restricted combat between Christians to three days a week, Urban declared, "I exhort and demand that you, each, try hard to have the truce kept in your diocese.
"There are more sweaters!" I exhorted him.
I exhorted myself for about a week to fill out the ballot despite the missed deadline: "It's not about the outcome.
Beneath a subject line that read: "Great media-related story," I exhorted broadcast news executives, anchors at cable news outlets, and writers and editors at major metropolitan newspapers and leading national magazines to consider covering the event.
Also, "you have to live" before you write, a motto that loses some impact when Bénabou notes that "it was of course by dint of purely literary references that I exhorted myself not to be snared too soon by the nets of literature".
"Rely on your faith and your religion," I exhorted.
