dissuade

How To Use dissuade In A Sentence

• Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless.
• And it may dissuade you from sharing a snap on Instagram. The Sun
• Yet his hopelessness in the 1994 film did not dissuade one family from buying into the dream. Times, Sunday Times
• We dissuade any lady from touching or going near a zebra's mouth, or the horns of an ibex or an algazel, or the pointed bill of a heron or stork, or from putting her hand near this fine painted pig. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
• Not that he was easily dissuaded from his career path. Times, Sunday Times
• With some difficulty, we managed to dissuade our left-leaning daughter from buying pint-sized T-shirts for our preschool grandchildren.
• I am almost willing to bet that he is more of a dissuader than a persuader critique always being that much simpler. Steele...
• Chichester set off once more in spite of his friends'attempts to dissuade him.
• I tried to dissuade her from getting married.
• Aeschines was sent on an embassy to Megalopolis where he sought to dissuade the assembly of the Arcadians from dealings with Philip II.