Example sentences for: persuading

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

  • While Clarke remained concerned about the pace of the policy review, he now saw a greater possibility of persuading the deputies to recognize the changed nature of terrorism.

  • Microsoft appears to have evened the score by persuading the press to link DOJ, Nader, and anti-Microsoft politicians to the company's competitors.

  • Given the generally negative view of Pakistan on Capitol Hill, the idea of lifting sanctions may have seemed far-fetched, but perhaps no more so than the idea of persuading Musharraf to antagonize the Islamists in his own government and nation.

  • We owe a debt to the philosopher David Hume for persuading Gibbon to take such notational material out of the back of his volumes and to print it at the bottom of the relevant pages--thereby turning end notes into foot notes, and allowing Gibbon more effectively to drop the other shoe.

  • Since most movies are bad (both in the subjective aesthetic sense and in the cruder sense of being unpopular), discounting the bad ones would bleed revenue while probably not persuading many moviegoers to make the tradeoff between quality and cost.


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