persuade

[pərˈsweɪd]

Definition:
1. Win approval or support for.
2. Cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm.

Use 'persuade' in a sentence:

1. I was confident in my ability to persuade.
2. Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless.
3. Can you persuade the man on the Clapham omnibus that it is useful?
4. They tried to persuade me to retract my words.
5. Eisenhower used his muscle to persuade Congress to change the law.
6. I tried to persuade her to wait but she wasn't having any.
7. Please try and persuade her.
8. You'll never persuade him to stay ─ his mind's made up.
9. Could we not persuade you to let us go?
10. No one was persuaded by his arguments.
11. We persuaded her to confess her crime.
12. Ford never desisted from trying to persuade him to return to America.
13. At no time did they try to persuade me to suppress the information.
14. He will doubtless try and persuade his colleagues to change their minds.
15. She'll persuade him. He's like putty in her hands.
16. Efforts to persuade the remainder to follow suit have continued.
17. Let's try to persuade him to see things our way.
18. Save your breath ─ you'll never persuade her.
19. It's difficult to persuade my husband that it isn't a slight on him that I enjoy my evening class.
20. They tried in vain to persuade her to go.
21. I had a terrible job to persuade her to come.
22. He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come.
23. Save your breath—you'll never persuade her.
24. It will be difficult to persuade them that there's no other choice.
25. We tried to persuade her to do it but failed.
26. It's no use ─ I can't persuade her.
27. I am still not fully persuaded of the plan's merits.
28. People tried to persuade him to go for a more gradual reform programme.
29. It wasn't easy to persuade her to come— quite the reverse.
30. Try to persuade him to come.
31. I tried to persuade her to see a doctor.
32. He manages to persuade both his wife and girlfriend to provide him with an alibi.
33. I did my damnedest to persuade her.
34. She can persuade without creating hostility.
35. He did his utmost to persuade me not to go.
36. Somehow, he'd managed to persuade Kay to buy one for him.
37. You may need to be armed with some forceful arguments to persuade a partner into seeing things your way.
38. Can you persuade her out of her foolish plans?
39. Recent information may persuade the board to reconsider.
40. Foolishly, I allowed myself to be persuaded to enter the contest.
41. How did you manage to persuade him?
42. We're trying to persuade manufacturers to sell them here.
43. Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him.
44. It did not persuade them to abandon the war but it did force them to reappraise their strategy.
45. It wasn't easy to persuade her to come ─ quite the reverse.
46. I failed in my attempt to persuade her.
47. I tried to persuade him, but with little or no effect.
48. She had persuaded herself that life was not worth living.