How to Use persuasion in a Sentence

persuasion

noun

• It would take a lot of persuasion to get him to agree to such an offer.
• Most kids don't need much persuasion to use computers.
• At the end of the day, every election is about two things: turnout and persuasion.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 24 Jan. 2023
• There’s charm there, and smarts, along with the skills of persuasion and a million-dollar smile.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2022
• Or maybe Annabella is just a metaphor for the power of persuasion.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• For now, the power of emotional persuasion may be about the best Democrats have.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2022
• Sister Pat sought to frame her work as more of moral persuasion.
  — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2022
• Her last gift to me was the ultimate persuasion for faith.
  — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2022
• Both the president and speaker will test their powers of persuasion to line up the votes for the deal.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 May 2023
• To say that many of these films were made with persuasion in mind is not to disparage them.
  — Mark Harris, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• And while most clients will take their guidance, the pair reveal some take a bit more persuasion.
  — Topher Gauk-Roger, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
• The Sea Lions may have head coach Justin James’ powers of persuasion to thank for it.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 May 2022
• The brand’s new electric vehicle, the Ariya, is of the latter stylish persuasion.
  — cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
• The mermaid-like Sirens in Wednesday, such as Bianca, have the power of persuasion.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 29 Nov. 2022
• She was sent there with one goal: Deliver an heir, preferably of the male persuasion.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 14 Oct. 2022
• Some of these guns, in long-action versions in magnum persuasion, can weigh up to 6 pounds, 7 ounces.
  — Mike Dickerson, Field & Stream, 19 July 2023
• The tough one for persuasion experts is this — trying to get the other guy to act in his own best self-interests.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• Tanya needed little persuasion to head to the bedroom with him.
  — William Earl, Variety, 5 Dec. 2022
• This week's Riverdale saw Percival — and his powers of persuasion — start his takeover of Riverdale in a major way.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
• And the publics of each belligerent nation must be sustained in their hopes of winning, and such persuasion can come at great cost.
  — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
• Embrace the future with optimism, and use your power of persuasion to see matters through to the end.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
• Among Bailey’s tools of persuasion: enticing people to go outside and look at the birds.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• Her childhood home in Rochester, Vt., was so populated with ghosts of the un-Casper persuasion, the family sold it.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• But these were among his strong suits—especially the power of persuasion.
  — Adam Popescu, Popular Mechanics, 18 July 2022
• The focus on persuasion may be the result of necessity.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• Camarena, 51, took up the sport 11 years ago and has been consumed by it ever since, speaking of the sport with the passion and persuasion of a Southern preacher.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2022
• After weeks of visits by outreach workers and last-minute persuasion by police, the row of shanties was abandoned.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
• The Greek statesman and orator Aeschines wrote that, in the art of persuasion, speaking with an arm outside one’s tunic is very bad manners.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• Others are centrists who have problems with both parties but are open to persuasion.
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• The president has failed to see politics as the art of persuasion and is instead ruling by fiat.
  — Catherine Poisson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024