Example Sentences

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I wonder how well and efficiently he would have written it with frequent and intermittent shouts being thrown his way, regardless of whether they were insults or encouragements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025

To get out of the slump and push the quality upward again, I clap my hands and shout encouragements like a ranting soccer coach: “Come on now!”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2023

The chat and commenters on Twitter were screaming encouragements, hyped as all hell to have the privilege of watching Malenia fall for the 1,000th time.

From The Verge • May 11, 2022

He was dizzyingly accessible in his DMs — several people posted screenshots of his private encouragements, emotional labor that was free and unseen, but not without consequence.

From New York Times • Nov. 29, 2021

The girl murmured encouragements: “Come on, Winnie. There’s a good pigeon. Show us the way.”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs