Example Sentences

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Exerting his pull in the comedy world, which boasts a booming live performance market, only makes him more powerful.

From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024

Exerting control over his art — and as Spielberg’s partisans and detractors know, few filmmakers control their material so rigorously — becomes a means of dulling, displacing and sometimes sanitizing his own acutely felt pain.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2022

Exerting control over one meant losing control of the other.

From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2021

Exerting some forms of indirect control — like providing software or developing policies on which a franchisee relies — could make the larger corporation liable.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2019

Exerting the full strength of a female badger, she lifted the massive Cavern Hole dining table.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques