6 sentences with 'exerted'
Example sentences and phrases with the word exerted and other words derived from it.
• « In 1652, the Dutch took control of the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa, which allowed them to control the ships around Africa en route to Asia, and they exerted additional military force in the Indies to force native merchants to trade only with them (among Europeans). »
• « The Soviets directly controlled Eastern Europe and had enormous influence over the other communist countries, while the United States exerted considerable influence over NATO member states. »
• « The discomfort was due to the fact that her posture exerted great pressure on her fifth and sixth lumbar vertebrae, which is why at bedtime (sliding on all fours into her cave), she would ask her partner for a massage session so that the discomfort would go away. »
• « One conviction united them: that the interest and pressure exerted by the West contributed to their liberation. »
• « Although the urban working class could not afford the consumer goods that the middle class could, its members exerted a strong influence on popular culture. Theirs was a festive public culture of liberation and escape from the drudgery of factory work, attended by the likes of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the celebrated circus promoter and showman. »