persuade
verb (used with object)
to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging.
were persuading
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past progressiveof persuade.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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
He professed, through spokeswoman Lisa Lewinson, that money-seeking deprogrammers were persuading former disciples to fabricate accusations.
From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Mark Eliot Laxer
He had a hold o' Miss Ruth's hands; and was speaking very earnest to her, as though he were persuading her to something she were dead against.
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
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 Arthur Mee
