How to Use dissuade in a Sentence

dissuade

verb

• Our warnings did not dissuade them.
• Even a date with the hunky Chase isn't enough to dissuade her from Joey.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• If that’s not enough to dissuade you, reach out to the shop now to reserve a 912c of your very own.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 19 Dec. 2023
• His run-in with the law didn’t dissuade him from selling drugs.
  — Benoît Morenne, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2023
• And those shouldn’t dissuade people from taking in the park in a safe way.
  — Darcie Moran, Detroit Free Press, 4 July 2024
• Still, if you’re set on buying a home, that might not be enough to dissuade you.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 9 Dec. 2022
• The last week suggests that amount might not be enough to dissuade flippers.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 4 Mar. 2024
• The snow didn’t bother her in March, the mud didn’t dissuade her in April, the bugs didn’t discourage her in May.
  — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
• Yet high prices weren’t dissuading many from wanting the drugs.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• Sure, there might be some errors, but at the end of the day, this shouldn’t dissuade you from using a tracker.
  — Julia Ries, Outside Online, 6 Sep. 2024
• But knowing the truth didn’t dissuade Williams from watching those scary movies.
  — Sonia Rao, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
• Or does the boom and bust nature of ordering dissuade you from that idea?
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 16 Aug. 2024
• People will dissuade you from doing what’s in your heart to do.
  — Jean Paul Paulynice, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• That didn’t dissuade Curry from sticking to his dish, though.
  — oregonlive, 24 Jan. 2023
• Among the search results were sites that tried to dissuade women from getting abortions in the first place.
  — Kara Alaimo, CNN, 14 July 2022
• Miss Barbara tried to dissuade her: there had been many bank closures since the start of the pandemic.
  — Hannah Zeavin, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• But that didn't dissuade her from looking for a nice donkey friend for her horses to get along with.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 27 June 2022
• That appeared to be insufficient to dissuade the justices, who agreed to hear the case last month.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 Mar. 2022
• Namely the rhinos, who had their horns shaved down to dissuade any poachers who might make it past all the safeguards.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 9 Mar. 2023
• Long-term, that doesn’t dissuade Barry from her vision for Best Buy.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• What were some of the tactics used to dissuade women from wearing feathers?
  — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• Trying to dissuade him away from his position is not my job and will just waste time.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
• The mounting cost of competing for the projects hasn’t dissuaded states from trying.
  — Marc Levy, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2023
• In the case of the Netherlands and Japan, China already failed to dissuade them from adopting new export controls.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• The arena’s plumbed bathrooms are now open and monitored, the stall doors removed to dissuade drug use.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2022
• He also was found guilty of dissuading a witness with force.
  — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacramento Bee, 10 May 2024
• If the dangers of the sun aren't enough to dissuade you from trying this trend, perhaps some insight from makeup artist Hillary Clark is.
  — Lauren Burwell, Allure, 15 July 2024
• That shouldn’t dissuade you from looking into the matter.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• There’s no concrete suggestion that Erik is lying, but if you’re predisposed to think of him as a master manipulator, this segment won’t dissuade you.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2024
• The former Minnesota Wild enforcer's job will be to dissuade opponents from bullying Bedard.
  — Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024