How to Use persuadable in a Sentence

persuadable

adjective
  • The breeze was warm, the soil was soft, and the weeds were persuadable.
    Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 May 2017
  • The concern for Trump is that the poll is a harbinger of a full break among persuadable voters toward Biden.
    Mario Parker, Bloomberg.com, 5 Oct. 2020
  • But with the Delta variant spreading like wildfire, there may not be time to play the long game even with people who seem persuadable.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Only a tiny slice of the electorate is considered persuadable — anywhere from 6% or less to the low teens.
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The people less likely to vote as well as those who are persuadable voters are more likely to be closer to the center of the aisle.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 9 Oct. 2021
  • One way to think about them is a possibly persuadable pool of voters.
    CBS News, 30 July 2020
  • The stakes of the election expand while the presidential field, the number of swing states, and the pool of persuadable voters all contract.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 25 Mar. 2023
  • But the segments of the Republican party that are not in Trump’s thrall may yet be persuadable.
    Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • To win, even in a one-on-one contest, Trump would need to hold only about half of the remaining, persuadable voters.
    David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023
  • What matters are the perceptions of persuadable voters and Democrats who might have stayed home in the face of a bad economy.
    Paul Krugman, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Some of these folks, the Biden people have concluded, are persuadable.
    Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
  • But his mother, who is also a nurse, seemed persuadable.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2020
  • As each party grew apart from the other, the number of persuadable members in the center dwindled.
    John A. Lawrence, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020
  • The slice of the state’s electorate that is seen as persuadable is getting smaller, a trend that has shown up in many parts of the country, strategists from both parties said.
    Joshua Jamerson, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • And that outer suburb base for persuadable voters is not new.
    Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • In other words: Some unvaxxed adults are still persuadable.
    Brian Stelter, CNN, 19 Dec. 2021
  • But other polling suggests that the truly persuadable voters are drawn to those who can restore hope.
    Time, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Numbers back up the idea that there are many persuadable voters still out there, according to Portman.
    Tyler Olson, Fox News, 1 May 2022
  • To that end, both sides are racing to define her for persuadable voters in battleground states.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • To do that, the campaign identified groups of users as Black, as voters, as living in swing states, and, finally, as persuadable.
    Sidney Fussell, Wired, 12 Oct. 2020
  • This means Democrats are smart to use North Carolina as a proving ground for their efforts to reach persuadable, non-partisan votes.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The ads aim to reach persuadable voters on digital platforms such as Hulu.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 27 Jan. 2020
  • His focus at the Lincoln Project was reaching out to persuadable voters in key portions of battleground states.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2022
  • There are some key questions: Will this conviction resonate with persuadable voters in key swing states?
    Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 31 May 2024
  • Suburban women are seen as one of the only persuadable voting groups.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • Of course, persuadable voters won’t be the only important factor this fall.
    Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • But even if those nutters aren’t persuadable, perhaps the more moderate middle is.
    Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • The tiny universe of truly persuadable voters is the reason Harris is very likely to pick a moderate white male as her running mate.
    Axios, 25 July 2024
  • Looking ahead Some potential voters may be persuadable in the campaign ahead.
    Gary Langer, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Most voters had baked in views of each candidate, leaving some pundits to suspect there were few persuadable swing voters left.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 23 July 2024

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