How to Use dissuade in a Sentence

dissuade

verb

• Our warnings did not dissuade them.
• Even a date with the hunky Chase isn't enough to dissuade her from Joey.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• But the challenges ahead shouldn’t dissuade the launch of ALCE.
  — Ana Campoy, Quartz, 20 Jan. 2022
• If that’s not enough to dissuade you, reach out to the shop now to reserve a 912c of your very own.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
• That did not dissuade any of the migrants CNN spoke with.
  — Natalie Gallón, CNN, 1 Mar. 2021
• His run-in with the law didn’t dissuade him from selling drugs.
  — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• Does that dissuade you from being the smartest person in the room?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
• And those shouldn’t dissuade people from taking in the park in a safe way.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
• Still, if you’re set on buying a home, that might not be enough to dissuade you.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• The last week suggests that amount might not be enough to dissuade flippers.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024
• The unit has to be locked each day, Merz said, to dissuade users from locking themselves in.
  — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 4 July 2025
• There’s still 10 more wins to stack, which may do little to dissuade the skeptics.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
• The snow didn’t bother her in March, the mud didn’t dissuade her in April, the bugs didn’t discourage her in May.
  — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• But that penchant for turnovers shouldn’t dissuade the Trojans from trying to stretch the field.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• That plus the 28-year-old Reed’s age would dissuade me from pursuing him.
  — Dan Duggan, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
• Yet high prices weren’t dissuading many from wanting the drugs.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• Sure, there might be some errors, but at the end of the day, this shouldn’t dissuade you from using a tracker.
  — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2024
• But knowing the truth didn’t dissuade Williams from watching those scary movies.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• At some point, the volatility is going to dissuade investors to jump back in and buy on the dip.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 May 2021
• Or does the boom and bust nature of ordering dissuade you from that idea?
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
• People will dissuade you from doing what’s in your heart to do.
  — Jean Paul Paulynice, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• Still, this might not dissuade white men from entering the race.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2021
• Karen yells at Daniel and Nick (not enough to dissuade the former from pursuing a hookup with her, though).
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2021
• Get to your spot early and hope that late arrivers will be dissuaded by the thought of a pack of other hunters in the woods.
  — Gerry Bethge, Outdoor Life, 29 Jan. 2020
• That didn’t dissuade Curry from sticking to his dish, though.
  — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2023
• Among the search results were sites that tried to dissuade women from getting abortions in the first place.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 14 July 2022
• Miss Barbara tried to dissuade her: there had been many bank closures since the start of the pandemic.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• But the effects of his trade war may yet dissuade voters from giving him four more years.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 Aug. 2019
• But states may now be dissuaded by the Trump administration's stance against price mandates being applied to the grant program.
  — Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2025
• Galloway recalls that this shocking opener led into a talk designed to prepare the aspiring writers to weather the hardships ahead – not necessarily to dissuade them from ever trying.
  — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025