PERSUASION in a Sentence

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60 example sentences for PERSUASION, such as:

1. He made a persuasive argument.
2. His analysis is in many ways highly persuasive.
3. He shows a persuasive argument at that meeting.
4. So, after some persuasion, Clifford allowed her to go.
5. I wasn't intending to sell, but I'm open to persuasion.

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 Meanings and Examples of PERSUASION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
persuasion
 n.  a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
 n.  the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  No argument or persuasion could ever induce him to set up a female establishment after the manner of his companions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
2  So, after some persuasion, Clifford allowed her to go.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
3  Venerable men of his own persuasion had come to pray beside him, but he had driven them away with curses.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
5  I had a persuasion that if I could enter those doors and carry a blaze of light before me I should discover the Time Machine and escape.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  I had a persuasion that I should be supposed mad, and this in itself would forever have chained my tongue.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
7  And drawing him a little aside, she whispered her persuasion that Lucy could not stay much longer.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35
8  I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
9  Ham yielded to this persuasion, and took his hat to go.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30. A LOSS
10  Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
11  My iron shroud contracted round me; persuasion advanced with slow sure step.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  Elizabeth was determined; nor did Sir William at all shake her purpose by his attempt at persuasion.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
13  His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
14  Her husband and children were her entire world, and in these she ruled more by entreaty and persuasion than by command or argument.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  The old men of the company, partly by persuasion and partly by force, loosed the poor creature's last despairing hold, and, as they led her off to her new master's wagon, strove to comfort her.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
Example Sentence:
1  We will achieve much more by persuasion than by brute force.
2  I had to use a little gentle persuasion to get her to agree.
3  Exertion of authority over others is not always wise; persuasion may be better.
4  Most of us are known to succumb to persuasion through the media.
5  It was an object lesson in how to use television as a means of persuasion.
6  She was using all her powers of persuasion to induce the Griffins to remain in Rollway.
7  I wasn't intending to sell, but I'm open to persuasion.
8  His analysis is in many ways highly persuasive.
9  He made a persuasive argument.
10  Findings suggest that while television is more informative than the press, it is less persuasive.
11  You can use highly descriptive and persuasive sentences to evoke a positive response from your reader.
12  He shows a persuasive argument at that meeting.
13  They argue persuasively in favour of a total ban on handguns.