How to Use dissuade in a Sentence

dissuade

verb

• Our warnings did not dissuade them.
• Playing dead may dissuade a grizzly or brown bear, but never play dead around a black bear.
  — Laken Brooks, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• Teams should be very careful trying to dissuade speaking out.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2021
• The changes the pandemic brought to the conference did not dissuade him from coming back this year.
  — Christine Tannous, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2021
• The salary jump likely wouldn’t dissuade the Rangers from tendering him a contract.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2021
• Initially, Michaelian and others were worried that the protocols would dissuade fans.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2021
• The goal was to dissuade immigrants from illegally crossing the border to work in the United States.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• Trump endorsed her 2020 run for Congress and nearly hired her as a campaign aide a year ago but was dissuaded by his aides from doing so.
  — Luke Tress, Sun Sentinel, 20 Nov. 2024
• Showing the strength of the city’s position and the baselessness of any claim, Conley said, could dissuade attorneys who work on contingency from suing the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021
• Don’t let negative reviews dissuade you from seeing this very weird, very messy and nonetheless intriguing superhero team-up, which grapples with big ideas about creation, free will and whether humans are even worth saving.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2021
• Even a date with the hunky Chase isn't enough to dissuade her from Joey.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Feb. 2023
• But the challenges ahead shouldn’t dissuade the launch of ALCE.
  — Ana Campoy, Quartz, 20 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Since 2020, the GOP largely has dissuaded its voters from casting early ballots, citing false conspiracies around mail-in voting and ballot drop boxes.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024