Sentence examples for were persuading from inspiring English sources
verb
To successfully convince (someone) to agree to, accept, or do something, usually through reasoning and verbal influence. Compare sway.
- That salesman was able to persuade me into buying this bottle of lotion.
In many cases, women were persuading men to flee, he said.
Students were persuading their universities to withdraw their money from fossil fuels – the richest companies in the world.
Moonves was agitated that Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer, of ABC, were persuading Jennifer Lopez and other celebrities to appear on their magazine shows, while CBS was not.
Suddenly contemporary art could be seen to reach large audiences, and buildings with sufficient cachet were persuading people not just to come to exhibitions, but to eat, drink and shop on the site.
At the time, banks in Cyprus were persuading people this was the best thing to do, on the grounds that the interest rates were lower and because the Swiss franc was deemed to be a stable currency, says Neil Heaney, who runs Judicare, a legal services firm that specialises in helping people try to recover their money when an overseas property purchase goes wrong.
The members were persuaded.
Few analysts interviewed were persuaded.
Perhaps these people were persuaded to talk.
Not all viewers, of course, were persuaded.
Both Louis and Conrad were persuaded to attack Damascus.
