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.