Example sentences for: persuading

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

  • 4) The Serbs will attack the ethnic Albanians in the hope of persuading them to back the war, which the Serbs would win, instead of the peace talks, which the Serbs would lose.

  • 3) Ethnic Albanian hard-liners will use the recess to attack the Serbs in the hope of persuading the ethnic Albanian population to back the war instead of the peace talks.

  • After becoming disabled in a machete attack on a visit to his native Haiti, Jean-Claude Joseph needed help persuading his landlord to move him from a fifth-floor apartment to one on the ground floor.

  • Another al-Hayat article said that American "shamelessness is set to make a major comeback" in the region, as, since Kosovo, there is "no prospect of persuading the policymakers in Washington that they are not always right--just as it was impossible to persuade Saddam that he did not win the 1991 Gulf War, or Milosevic that it was his savagery which led to the latest bombing campaign and provided NATO with moral cover for its first dirty war.

  • Paxon is persuading GOP leaders to let Dubya dictate their agenda.


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