“Efforts to persuade teenagers to stay in school have proven to be successful.”

“He kept telling her she was beautiful while trying to persuade her to have coffee with him.”

“Nothing new there, you might reply, you cheeky young scamps, and I'm hardly in much of a position to persuade you otherwise.”

“An implicit appeal to eugenics persuades the reader that the innate badness of the suicidal killer can be known just by looking.”

“What persuades me that an independent obligation was intended here is the reference in the sale contract, scilicet in its printed form.”

“The painting's almost panoramic format effectively persuades the viewer to imagine walking through this polychromatic landscape.”

“She was soon persuaded to have more carpets than she wanted and they brought in some rolls before quoting a price for the work.”

“I kept putting the decision off, until my friend persuaded me to tell the baby's father.”

“What, for instance, would stop Third World women being financially persuaded to become pregnant and abort to provide the cells?”