persuade
verb (used with object)
to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging.
am persuading
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present progressiveof persuade (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Well," with a twinkling smile, "just now I am persuading Adelina to sing at my benefit."
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
But do not suppose that I am persuading you to give up criticism.
From The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker
Yet here was fought a battle of some interest to Englishmen: and I am persuading farmers to weed well the corn that grows over those who died there.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
I am persuading my guests to pass on there.
From Ziska by Marie Corelli
And as it were, I am holding a revival—I am persuading the negro and the white man as well to kneel under the cross.
From An Arkansas Planter by Opie Percival Read
