9 sentences with “persuade”

I couldn't persuade him to quit smoking.

The business meeting was successful thanks to the executive's ability to persuade.

The eloquent speaker managed to persuade the audience with her solid speech and convincing arguments.

My son was trying to persuade my wife to buy him a T-shirt with a silkscreen print of the symbol of the popular comic book hero Batman.

He tried to persuade them to flee to the Alps to seek refuge in their (mostly Celtic) homelands, but was eventually persuaded to return to plunder Italy.

Thursday 17, 5 p.m. After 17 hours, the Dorje guide had still not managed to persuade the group to turn back. -We will walk on after dark," he finally conceded.

The two main areas that a man had to master were, therefore, war and rhetoric: the ability to defeat enemies in battle and the ability to persuade potential allies in the political arena.

What made "The Spectator" so popular was its style; the essays were intended to persuade, and to cultivate among readers a refined set of behaviours, rejecting deceit and bigotry and focusing instead on polishing people's taste and manners.

However, as the crucial weeks of late June and early July unfolded, a faction of conservative nobles and the queen tried to persuade King Louis to use force to remove what they correctly perceived as a fundamental challenge to royal authority, and he cautiously moved forward with a plan to summon troops to police the proceedings.