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    Use "dissuade" in a sentence

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    1. Spelman and young Miss Kaitlyn into joining them for certain undisclosed sport, and with some regret I must admit, I was forced to dissuade them from their request


    2. This was supplied in part to dissuade any truly unqualified candidates from wasting the time and materials of the new instructor


    3. Though they both had found a way to make a lucrative living by raiding the chopa dealers' hideouts, despite Alec's efforts to dissuade her, the elf woman insisted on distributing her share to Shattered Rock's impoverished


    4. “Well, we all had a long discussion about this matter, with valuable input from Darniil, and we’re convinced that whatever concerns we may have will not dissuade you from your decision


    5. The last thing she needed was another domineering man in her life! He’d have to find some reasonable way to dissuade her, which would be difficult


    6. There was nothing she could say or do that would dissuade Karla from continuing to see him


    7. I was a little worried about what I would do with her once I got her, but it was a concern that would not dissuade me in my pursuit of her


    8. If she wants to believe in a government conspiracy, I don’t think I can dissuade her


    9. I couldn’t have been more grateful, and Carlotta did not try to dissuade them


    10. My parents could not dissuade me, so a month later, they moved there as well

    11. As the challenges mounted, I become more driven to succeed, as I saw this as a golden opportunity to teach my children that nothing should ever dissuade them from their dreams


    12. I'd been flat out for weeks and, while still loving the acting, had become drained, filthy tempered and depressed by grey skies, cold, damp, ugly people and the prospect of at least three months more of the same until summer – if it arrived! My moody outbursts had become as embarrassing to me as everyone else, so no one attempted to dissuade me when I stopped the van in a village fifty miles east of Bristol, wished them a happy Easter and said I’d see them in four weeks


    13. And neither Severa nor Ño Josefina, of having been in present body, could have been able to dissuade me to renounce to those lips that were the gates to heaven, not


    14. As I said before, Ño Josefina did not see with good eyes my newly acquired hobby and tried to dissuade me from the practice of magic engaging me in other occupations


    15. Unfortunately the physical interventions wouldn’t be enough to dissuade him from the actions he took that fateful night


    16. He’s persistent, I have to give him that, as nothing I’ve done can dissuade him


    17. She interpreted Mary's efforts to dissuade her as a natural reaction to the dread of losing the head and sole support of her family; but knowing that her father approved of her attraction for the carpenter's son, she rightly reckoned that he would gladly supply the family with sufficient income fully to compensate for the loss of Jesus' earnings


    18. I would by every possible artifice seek to prevent and dissuade him from making such an attack and to mitigate it in case of my failure to abort it


    19. And the tactic employed by them was to encourage hybrid fiction through publication and dissuade the genuine novel by its rejection


    20. They urged her to go with her sons and seek to dissuade him from further efforts at public teaching

    21. While Ruth could not explain all of his conduct, she insisted that he had always treated his family fairly and refused to agree to the program of trying to dissuade him from further work


    22. And it was because he detected the danger of permitting the suggestions of even his affectionate and loyal friends to dissuade him, that he turned upon Peter and the other apostles, saying: "Get you behind me


    23. This he did in spite of the efforts of his apostles to dissuade him


    24. "Has it dawned on you that he may have learned of his fate? Do you really think that talking to him would dissuade him in anyway?"


    25. As an elder statesman in our world, Clemens has a great deal of authority but it was not sufficient to dissuade those that lead us


    26. They then sought to dissuade the messengers, but they would not heed the words of doubt


    27. The minority had tried to dissuade against this decision, but the majority of Veiled minds had won out


    28. I got the feeling that he was trying to dissuade me from John, to separate us, because maybe, Loren wanted me to give my attention only to him


    29. But don’t let that dissuade you


    30. When Aureliano Serrador and Aureliano Arcaya, the two who arrived during the tumult, ex-pressed a wish to stay in Macondo, their father tried to dissuade them

    31. Also in vain were the artificial nests built of esparto grass in the almond trees and the birdseed strewn about the roofs, and arousing the captives so that their songs would dissuade the deserters, because they would take flights on their first attempts and make a turn in the sky, just the time needed to find the direction to the Fortunate Isles


    32. In that light, he could only vainly try to dissuade Wickland from pursuing such a fruitless endeavor


    33. ‘’Couldn’t the United States dissuade the Chinese and Soviets to invade by threatening the use of the atomic bomb?’’


    34. The fate the Chinese were reserving to Tri was too obvious to Liem, who started running towards them, hoping to be able to dissuade them


    35. circumstances, to concentrate on even a single idea, much less three at once) Schmoozeglutton knew that it would be difficult to dissuade Obeast from his chosen course in any case: how could you stop a troll bent on stupidity? He could order him to stop, but would he? If he didn’t, would he, Schmoozeglutton, be willing to back it up with a fight? Under ordinary circumstances, of course he would


    36. John repeatedly tried to dissuade him from what would surely be a career ending, and possibly a life ending decision, but he would not relent


    37. If the power of my 3rd Air Force can help dissuade the Soviets from starting a new war, then I will have done my duty, both as an American officer and as a Chosen of The One


    38. He was terribly poor at wielding it, but an object such as that could dissuade the less desperate of vagabonds


    39. But when Jesus decided to go to Bethany when Lazarus was ill, the rest of the disciples tried to dissuade Him, it was Thomas who said "let us go and die with Him" (John 11, 16)


    40. When dialogue ceases to be a viable resolution to conflict, then the only way to dissuade a country from immoral acts in your name is to simply not fund those acts and the institution that perpetrates them

    41. Kirstin had tried to dissuade him but he was in no mood to listen


    42. With a rueful grin, Annie agreed, for she knew the pup would eventually end up over at her house anyways, for she knew her brother well, so it was easier to gracefully give in now and give her consent than to spend the next month trying to dissuade her brother from wanting the dog


    43. Trying to dissuade his brother from this course of action, he poked him lightly with his hand and secretly expressed his advice to him as if he had said: “Stop that! What is the matter with you? Is there any cause for you to throw away eleven golden liras?!”


    44. friends try to dissuade him, DonJuan fearlessly accepts the invitation


    45. Less wise than Miss Entwhistle, they tried to dissuade her from marrying this man, and the more they tried the tighter she clung to him


    46. There was nothing David could do to dissuade her


    47. There was no way Kate could dissuade him


    48. Until something happened to dissuade him of this view he would concentrate his task force’s efforts in London


    49. To think such things would serve to misjudge her rationale and therefore dissuade her from believing in things that may actually be true


    50. That alone is almost enough to dissuade her, but had she not the purpose, and were she devoid of the inclination, she would have fallen to the ground and began to cry



































    1. His father quickly organized two groups of the men who couldn’t be dissuaded from some kind of retaliation


    2. In this she had made up her mind, and was not to be dissuaded


    3. be dissuaded in continuing in the walk with god


    4. From the icy look in her eye she could not be dissuaded


    5. Did she think her presence would have dissuaded the attack?


    6. The only time she dissuaded him was when he was about to destroy the daguerreotype of Remedios that was kept in the parlor lighted by an eternal lamp


    7. others, could be dissuaded – turned towards ‘the light’ – rather than, to what he had determined


    8. But Roosevelt had committed himself to Churchill and dissuaded Marshall and King


    9. electric discharge and T-Rex reared back, but it was not dissuaded in the slightest


    10. The chief refused to be dissuaded and we could see he had the

    11. They tried to prevent her from coming to see Aesa, but their mother would not be dissuaded


    12. He would’ve made it his main business, but his father, my great-grandfather, who’d taught him everything he knew, dissuaded him from doing so


    13. But Ellie wouldn’t be dissuaded


    14. Does he not deserve to know? Another part of her would always find ways to negatively answer these questions and counter every argument until she was deflated and dissuaded from telling him, or even being around him


    15. Two Rivers saw that his friend would not be dissuaded and nodded his assent


    16. He wasn’t dissuaded by our lack of communication and he led me off into a


    17. " She said this with a finality that dissuaded her from asking more, but she continued


    18. I think perhaps he may have dissuaded


    19. could not be dissuaded by his followers from returning to


    20. His full black beard and piercing blue eyes dissuaded people from letting him think they were staring at him

    21. She entered heart and soul into the details of the enterprise, advised and dissuaded: and finally a contract was drawn up by which Kathleen was to receive eight guineas for her services as accompanist at the four grand concerts


    22. But he had been dissuaded from experimenting with it by head coach Rusty Callow


    23. Thomas looked as if he might be inclined to argue further, but Merthin dissuaded him with a shake of the head


    24. One security guard jumped into a truck for some idea of pursuit—he wasn’t sure exactly where he might be headed—but was soon dissuaded when the pickup took fire and had two of its tires blown off


    25. By the time he was hurrying on his clothes in the morning, he saw so clearly the importance of not losing this rare chance, that if Bambridge and Horrock had both dissuaded him, he would not have been deluded into a direct interpretation of their purpose: he would have been aware that those deep hands held something else than a young fellow's interest


    26. “I was going to pop out of a cake, but your girls here dissuaded me


    27. They dissuaded me


    28. “Ivan has dissuaded me


    29. She would have insisted on sending to Petersburg at once, for a certain great medical celebrity; but her daughters dissuaded her, though they were not willing to stay behind when she at once prepared to go and visit the invalid


    30. Once more, his presence, the sound of his voice, so kind, so honest, dissuaded me from believing that all was lost for me

    31. I should have supposed that, rather than have made so glaring a confession that that State paper misstated fact, the gentleman would have been dissuaded from his darling object, the non-intercourse


    1. Why should they, when their Quran dissuades them against all that, “naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport


    1. We have difficulty dissuading ourselves from the habit of thinking we are 'one;' so to not acknowledge our presumed 'unity' by avoiding saying 'I' is tantamount to denying our existence


    2. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it


    3. But knowing Sam‘s determination he knew he had to touch this subject in a last effort at dissuading him or at least force him to face the fallibility of his new found sense


    4. event could play a role in her engagement’s dissuading


    5. very thought of marriage frightened her to death-that had been proved with the dissuading of her


    6. He wrote for ever dissuading us from such a course


    7. He wrote forever dissuading us from such a course


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    Synonyms for "dissuade"

    deter dissuade disincline discourage alarm

    "dissuade" definitions

    turn away from by persuasion