Example sentences for: persuasive

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

  • The book, raves Tom de Haven in the New York Times Book Review , has "pitch-perfect dialogue, persuasive characterization and a rich progression of scenes ...

  • Most of us who were alive back then remember what the public LBJ sounded like--ponderous, faux-sincere, amazingly awkward for a man reputed to be one of the most persuasive politicians of the age.

  • His argument is persuasive, but the conclusion is so counterintuitive--why should the soloist meekly accompany the orchestra when he isn't defying it?

  • For this reason, the concluding chapter, which urges urgent intervention to stop environmental degradation, felt out of place--though it is the most thoughtful and persuasive such argument I have seen.

  • Annan was chosen partly because the United States thought he would be "more secretary than general," but he has proved to be a wily negotiator, restrained and persuasive.


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