Words similar to dissuade

Example sentences for: dissuade

How can you use “dissuade” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Tamraz got into four White House events after the Democratic National Committee enlisted the CIA to try to dissuade a national-security aide from keeping him out of the White House.
All he needs is a censure proposal that satisfies 34 Democrats enough to dissuade them from voting to convict him.
The Commission received reports of growers actively seeking to prevent or dissuade workers from contacting legal services representatives.
Accordingly, when pro-lifers advocate measures that would make clinics give women information designed to dissuade them from having an abortion, they call these measures "women's right to know" bills.
In the long run, however, dictionary reviews probably serve no function: in the face of the relatively overwhelming funds at the disposal of some publishers to promote their books, reviews fail to dissuade people from buying bad dictionaries; such a small percentage of the dictionary-buying public attend to reviews that their effect is slight even when favourable; finally, the value of a dictionary to an individual can be tested only over long use, which even the wisest reviewer cannot anticipate.