How to Use persuasive in a Sentence

persuasive

adjective

• We weren't shown any persuasive evidence that he had committed the crime.
• The stronger the context, the more persuasive the offer.
  — David Marchese David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2023
• As before, the rest of the C40 continues to make a persuasive case to choose the XC40.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 25 May 2023
• The Mets were persuasive, and Scott took the job two days before Christmas.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2021
• But the biggest thing going for the president is, at the end of the day, is this persuasive?
  — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2019
• The threat of a prison sentence is much more persuasive than the threat of a large money penalty.
  — Peter Stone, The New Republic, 7 May 2021
• Often, these vibes are more persuasive than the story told by the stats.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
• Ask yourself what is more persuasive: anger and gloom, or joy and warmth?
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 3 June 2021
• Of the concert’s three pieces, this got the closest to a persuasive performance.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 3 May 2023
• Arguments abound both for and against hunting and the killing of wildlife, and there are persuasive points raised by both sides.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Sep. 2023
• Which is not to say that the performance isn’t persuasive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• And hopefully my speech is persuasive enough to keep her in there.
  — John Woodrow Cox, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
• This is a great persuasive argument, and Rome seems to buy it.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
• So there are a lot of things about it that are not entirely persuasive.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2021
• But the doctors have been very persuasive that the evidence is not here yet.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Even to the devout, the alarmist rhetoric about IVF has not proved entirely persuasive.
  — Anna Louie Sussman, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2019
• People have been tippling there for more than four hundred years, and the wine list has the heft—and the persuasive majesty—of a Gutenberg Bible.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
• So which cases are likely to prove the most persuasive?
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• Who would be trustworthy and persuasive enough to break the deadlock?
  — Ariel Procaccia, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
• Po came to Amsterdam to talk to me about this and asked me to do the film, and Po was a very persuasive character.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 19 June 2023
• The classic account of Kipling, while persuasive in many ways, seems to me to be a bit limited.
  — Sue Walsh, Quartz India, 21 Aug. 2019
• More persuasive to the average person might be the price.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The Supreme Court seems to have found these arguments persuasive.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 15 Nov. 2019
• Many witnesses both for and against the merger put forth some version of this idea, but Karp’s was the most persuasive.
  — Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 8 Feb. 2023
• And other courts tend to look at those rulings as very persuasive.
  — Katherine Lagrave, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2019
• When to Walk Away, makes a persuasive case for how getting better at quitting can lead to more success in the long run.
  — Lindsay Kohler, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• For Kiffin, the temptation forever will be to bend to that persuasive old friend, the ego.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• If the con is successful—if the power claim is persuasive—then a coup has occurred.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2020
• There is no persuasive evidence that there was anything hoax-like about Goldberg’s story.
  — Niall Stanage, The Hill, 25 Mar. 2025
• The new o3-mini model doesn't show any great advances on this score, ranking as more persuasive than humans in about 82 percent of random comparisons.
  — Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025