Example sentences for: swayed

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

  • When asked whether he had lobbied his colleagues to defeat the resolution authorizing the air war, as had been reported, DeLay conceded that he had "talked to a couple of members during the vote" but claimed not to have swayed anyone since it was "a vote of conscience."

  • There are some subjects about which people are unlikely to be swayed, and the friendly thing to do is agree to disagree.

  • Her decision on the independent-counsel issue may be good or bad--but it is legally defensible, and the evidence that Reno has been swayed by political factors doesn't amount to a prima facie case.

  • Fortunes swayed to and fro for centuries, but it was not until 1212, at Las Navas de Tolosa in northern Spain, that the Christians gained their first decisive victory.

  • Lewis proposes his censorship in order to prevent sheep-like juries and judges from being swayed by publicity.


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