Using energy

Usage examples of exerting.

Then he grew conscious of the bearhug grip he was exerting, and broke away.

She squeaked shrilly at the others, and before Menolly realized it, all of them had seized some tenable part of the wherry and were exerting their efforts to pull it from the bogsand.

Erragon, too, was taut as if, by exerting sufficient willpower, he could shift the plum­meting fireball south and east.

The planet’s gravity was exerting its inexorable influence over local space, tugging at the stability of the voidhawk’s distortion field, requiring extra power to compensate, a degradation which increased steadily as it approached the surface.

He experienced the dreadful exodus, the flight of souls expelled from the universe exerting a tidal force on his own precarious possession.

His right hand closed on the lance, boosted fingers exerting their full power, crushing the wood.

His own body glowed from the energistic power he was exerting, an image of vigour.

He allowed energy to flow through his patterning cells, exerting pressure on a particular point in space.

The pressure it was exerting against the confining mass of the planet had almost reached equilibrium.

Of course, he wasn’t exerting himself then, quite the opposite, he’d actually been reining in the power.

If you don’t start exerting some proper discipline then the whole Organization’s gonna fall apart.

To start with they had done their best to disconcert his cohorts, especially Billy-Joe and Courtney, exerting themselves to their limit.

Three different, extremely strong beliefs were acting upon the soul, exerting considerable pressure not only from outside, but within its own thoughts.

The remaining scraps of asteroid rock in the knot’s central cavern were dark zones, their mass exerting a minuscule gravity field against space time.

Steve was exerting far more power over her now than he ever had before, when he'd had full use of his senses and body, and his full range of charm.