6 sentences with 'persuade'
Example sentences and phrases with the word persuade and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »