Example Sentences

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Ritchie said that in supporting about 150 bereaved families, the biggest challenge had been "convincing the coroner that gambling does need to be considered".

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

"Actually I had been convincing him not to go and work there," she recalled, but she said she was now happily working in the mine and planned to stay, even after the war.

From Reuters • Nov. 22, 2023

Stead was headed for the sea, not Oakland, but for 35 minutes beyond the time he should have been over Oakland he had been convincing himself that his course was deflected by a side wind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without imagination he had been eloquent; without hopefulness he had been convincing.

From The Crusade of the Excelsior by Harte, Bret

The experience of the states with paper money, painfully impressive in the years before the framing of the Constitution, had been convincing to those who understood the economy of business.

From History of the United States by Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin)