Sentence examples for exhort me from inspiring English sources

My "guys in the basement," as Stephen King so aptly describes them, have been on strike for nearly a year, and no matter how many well-meaning people exhort me to "just write," it's no more effective than telling me "just don't have back pain" (I have chronic back problems) or, as another writer friend pointed out, telling an alcoholic "just don't drink".

"Fuerte, fuerte [be strong]," he exhorted me.

Jamming page 2 into my hand, he exhorted me on.

She exhorted me to talk, pray to Jesus directly, with the Scripture from Exodus in mind.

On the way out, a stencil exhorts me to "Be all I was born to be".

"Press on!" she exhorts me cheerily, as I sense she's about be spirited away to her next appointment.

I could not figure out which among the pages that exhorted me to "Experience Walkmankind" might describe that model.

Rallies have been held where leaders have exhorted me to leave my home and return to what they refer to as my 'original homeland'".

The most disturbing in recent years came about six months ago, when one of my oldest friends exhorted me to read Russell Brand's memoir.

I could imagine the throngs waiting at the finish gate, cameras trained on my cool outfit, the coach exhorting me to keep focus.

I had learned of Buyukada only two years ago, when a beguiling invitation exhorted me to travel there for a costume party (the theme: Fruits and Flowers) at a friend's seaside villa.