Example sentences for: persuade

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

  • The Sunday Telegraph 's spy scoops: The KGB ran a "dirty tricks" campaign to persuade Americans that President John F. Kennedy was murdered by the CIA; the agency planned to maim Russian ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalya Makarova for defecting to the West; it launched a series of plots against Pope John Paul II; and it planted KGB agents as assistants to three successive secretaries-general of the United Nations.

  • Still, Clinton insists that "he has no intention" of committing ground troops to the Kosovo war front and remains convinced that airstrikes alone can persuade Serb forces to swear off their favorite pastime of rape-and-pillage.

  • The image of Clinton scraping graffiti off some high school might persuade enough Republicans to sign on.

  • Even after Starr chose not to pursue her story, House Republicans used her secret FBI interview--which Clinton had been given no chance to rebut--to persuade their colleagues to vote for impeachment.

  • The Times of India sought to persuade the United States that "India's nuclear weapon capability is a source of stability for the wider region."


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