Example sentences for: persuaded

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

  • No wonder four of those on the latest list persuaded the city water department to withhold their names.

  • Mihdhar reportedly stayed in Yemen for about a month before Khallad persuaded him to return to Afghanistan.

  • A three-judge panel, reported both the Post and Los Angeles Times , has authorized Starr to explore charges that Clinton and his close friend Vernon Jordan persuaded the intern, Monica Lewinsky, to deny that she had had a year-and-a-half-long affair with the president after she had detailed the relationship in 10 conversations with Linda Tripp.

  • To finance the counterterrorism effort, Tenet had gone to congressional leaders after the 1998 embassy bombings and persuaded them to give the CIA a special supplemental appropriation.

  • Those bees, for instance: Don't they represent "unseen yet discreetly acknowledged labour (the bees have been persuaded into working overtime)"?


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