Example Sentences

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Lue said he kept Westbrook in the game late in the fourth quarter and the first overtime because the Kings had been exerting good ball pressure and “the pressure doesn’t bother him.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2023

Several said the United States had been exerting pressure for months to see Mas’ud handed over.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 17, 2022

Nicole was headed west because of a blocking dome of high pressure at the mid-latitudes that had been exerting a southward push on it.

From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2022

Many countries, including the United States, had been exerting enormous pressure on Pakistan to keep Mr. Sheikh in jail.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2021

"My poor brother is deaf," said my companion, after I had been exerting myself for five minutes to talk to him in my gentlest voice.

From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Bernhardt, Sarah