Sentence examples for exhorting me from inspiring English sources

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

When I was growing up, she was forever exhorting me to "go out for the team" or to "get into the game," long after it became apparent that the team and the game had little use for an overweight, bookish kid who would rather stay in and listen to his Dionne Warwick records.

Despite numerous hit covers of that song over several decades (Beach Boys, Charlie Pride and the big 1964 Johnny Rivers cut), he wasted no time in exhorting me to get a real job regardless of how bright I thought my future as a songwriter was going to be.

In the acknowledgements of this memoir, Alan Cumming thanks his agent for "not exhorting me to do a 'my fabulous celebrity life' type of book", and despite occasional references to hosting charity galas and wearing Alexander McQueen, Not My Father's Son tells two stories that unfold in places far removed from that glamour.

As we were talking under the lurid, stylized figures of Martin Luther King, Jr., exclaiming, "I Have a Dream," and Malcolm X, exhorting me to "Know Thy Self," a huge man named Lloyd got up from his chair, walked over to us, and, in a low, rumbling voice, offered to detail the car inside and out — shampoo the seats and rugs and everything — for eighty dollars.

Quietly folding his hands behind his back and exhorting me to do the same – arms swinging forward can be mistaken as provocation – Polenakis turned his head and whispered, "he's not one of our usual clientele.

"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.