How to Use persuade in a Sentence

persuade

verb

• He persuaded his friend to go back to school.
• He persuaded himself that he had made the right choice.
• She couldn't be persuaded to go.
• They persuaded us that we were wrong.
• He would not let himself be persuaded into buying the more expensive stereo.
• I am not easily persuaded.
• Then there’s the need to persuade consumers to eat the stuff.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• Meet the jam band that just might persuade you to love a jam band.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024
• The changes were enough to persuade Wilken to move forward to the next phase of the approval process.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Oct. 2024
• The Tigers agreed to pay a share of Fielder's contract to persuade Texas to make the trade.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
• Trump might also use the trip to try to persuade the Gulf states to keep oil prices down.
  — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2025
• Here are some of the pro-life activists trying to persuade the state to say no.
  — Charles Hilu, National Review, 7 Nov. 2022
• Massood tried to persuade his wife to stay, to get well first.
  — Mirzahussain Sadid, ProPublica, 5 Apr. 2022
• The degree to which the tribes’ brief persuades the Third Circuit remains to be seen.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 23 June 2025
• Then Sara makes one last attempt to persuade him to stay with her.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
• The killing of her second son has persuaded Roberts to move.
  — Barry Paddock, New York Daily News, 14 July 2024
• But how on earth did the teen get in contact with Dyer, let alone persuade him to take the part?
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Dec. 2024
• His attorney at the time was trying to persuade him to go to drug court to get the charges dropped.
  — Samuel Ford Stark, Sun Sentinel, 4 July 2024
• Could Bostwick be persuaded to take part in the Time Warp?
  — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2025
• It is believed that his goal was to persuade Britain to make peace with Germany.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• The campaign right now has the money to organize and run TV ads to try to persuade them.
  — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 7 Apr. 2024
• Could the suit persuade other reporters not to dig too deep?
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
• The pair had much to gain from persuading Americans to eat their fruit.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2023
• Say no to those trying to persuade you to be a follower.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
• Hochul has less than a year to persuade the state’s voters to make history.
  — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
• Turns out Raman’s campaign was trying to persuade her to pull the plug as well.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2026
• Some laughed as their classmates persuaded them.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 29 May 2026
• But to be successful the winner must turn around and persuade other leaders to provide help — such as money.
  — Sierra Van Der Brug, Daily News, 28 May 2026
• The raise and the policy change didn’t persuade MSU’s president to stay on.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• Debate is broken as a tool to inform, explore ideas and persuade an audience.
  — Lisa Pavia-Higel, The Conversation, 27 May 2026