were persuading
- past progressive of persuade.
Example Sentences
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“I remember one conversation in particular where a number of his colleagues were persuading me of why they had to do this,” Sacks said.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
Students were persuading their universities to withdraw their money from fossil fuels – the richest companies in the world.
From The Guardian ● May 19, 2015
Only one dog remained alive, but there was a human being whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
He often says that when he was in Madrid he knew that certain religious were persuading the king to conquer Japon, but that our fathers dissuaded him from this.
The dogs were being led back to their kennels, and as they were in a savage mood, the men were persuading or forcing them on.
From Chatterbox, 1906 by Clarke, J. Erskine (John Erskine)
