DISSUADE in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for DISSUADE, such as:

1. We did our best to dissuade Jake.
2. No one interfered to encourage or dissuade.
3. So she refused to let her mother dissuade her.
4. The father dissuaded his son from leaving school.
5. The parents tried to dissuade their son from marrying the girl.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISSUADE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dissuade
 v.  persuade not to do; discourage
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  Henry wished to dissuade me, but seeing me bent on this plan, ceased to remonstrate.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
2  Though he anxiously endeavoured to dissuade me, I saw that he was of my mind; and this, if I had required to be confirmed in my intention, would have had the effect.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
3  He began to speak, trying to find words not to dissuade but simply to soothe her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 16
4  And he'd tell him in spite of all Ashley could do to dissuade him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
5  We did our best to dissuade Jake.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
6  No one interfered to encourage or dissuade.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  Sir Walter had at first thought more of London; but Mr Shepherd felt that he could not be trusted in London, and had been skilful enough to dissuade him from it, and make Bath preferred.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
8  So she refused to let her mother dissuade her.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In II
9  would have been able to dissuade the whip-man.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
10  The conduct of the son in seeking to avenge his father was so natural that Chateau-Renaud did not seek to dissuade him, and was content with renewing his assurances of devotion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 88. The Insult.
11  I neither expressed surprise at this resolution nor attempted to dissuade her from it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
12  You are to understand, Miss Bennet, that I came here with the determined resolution of carrying my purpose; nor will I be dissuaded from it.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 56
13  Many of the crowd would have dissuaded him from touching a document so suspicious; but Higg was resolute in the service of his benefactress.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  Athos, according to his system, neither encouraged nor dissuaded him.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 34 IN WHICH THE EQUIPMENT OF ARAMIS AND PORTHOS IS TREATED OF
15  But I resisted all his solicitations and succeeded in dissuading him from his announced intention of walking home with me.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Example Sentence:
1  Since Tom could not dissuade Huck from running away from home, he decided to run away with him.
2  No threats could dissuade Bishop Desmond Tutu from his advocacy of the human rights of black South Africans.
3  The parents tried to dissuade their son from marrying the girl.
4  The father dissuaded his son from leaving school.