How to Use exert in a Sentence

exert

verb

• He had to exert all of his strength to move the stone.
• He exerts a lot of influence on the other members of the committee.
• Of course, in a league with a salary cap, the Lakers cannot exert the sort of advantage the Dodgers do.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 19 June 2025
• Once the seed has sprouted, some seedlings are able to exert enough force to push through the fine opening in the asphalt.
  — Melinda Myers, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• But Jansen didn’t need to exert much effort for his 13th save.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• The system may be the center of the universe, but the stars exert a gravity of their own.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The strength of the mind’s eye may exert a subtle influence over the course of people’s lives.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2021
• This means the thruster forces do not have a zero torque arm and do indeed exert torques.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Dec. 2020
• The thruster’s two hydraulic cylinders will exert force on the clamp, pushing the pipe and MTBM through the mountain.
  — Arkansas Online, 17 July 2022
• Pull up on the handle, which will exert pressure onto the arm and allow the cork to pop out.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2021
• The idea is that a wider muscle has more muscle fibers that can contract and exert a force.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• That is about 10 times the pressure that is exerted at the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trenches.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• During the first half of the pandemic, Rudaina would exert herself to climb the steps to our bedroom.
  — Hisham Melhem, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2020
• But Valdez also knows how and when to pull back and exert pointed restraint.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• This means that light shining on an object can exert a force.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Apr. 2023
• Boy is the pandemic beginning to exert its will on the NFL.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2020
• The winds will exert a chill, so dress for winter even as sunshine pushes highs above 50 for most.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2024
• Always wanted to win the game, to try to exert my will on the floor, and my teammates had the same mentality.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• In classical mechanics, the Sun exerts a force on the Earth equal in magnitude to the force that the Earth exerts back on the Sun.
  — Larry M. Silverberg, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
• The high gears, however, came up a bit short, as there was no way to pedal fast enough to exert force when the assist was maxed out.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2023
• In the end, the debate highlights, once more, how much control Musk can exert over public goods, Lewandowsky says.
  — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 8 Feb. 2023
• The Celtics, 76ers, and Knicks were banking on the Bucks having to exert effort in that series before moving on to the second round.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• In China, public homage to the dead often serves as a method of last resort to exert pressure on the living.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The new study suggests the forces that Earth exerted on the moon would have led to widespread upheaval and intense heating.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 18 Dec. 2024
• Whatever the place or situation, the old life has to exert a pull on the leaver or the leaving means little.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025
• What is new is for private investors to exert that power.
  — Ben Ryder Howe, Star Tribune, 4 Feb. 2021
• The problem was the Lakers getting down 10-0 in the first quarter and then having to exert a lot of energy and effort to get back in the game.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
• The exam also found the injuries were not consistent with child-sized hands or the level of force a child could exert.
  — Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 9 July 2024
• Systolic blood pressure is the top number on a blood pressure reading, which represents the pressure exerted on the arteries when the heart beats.
  — Sarah Bence, Verywell Health, 14 July 2025
• His primary intention was to exert pressure for interest rate cuts.
  — CNBC, 25 July 2025