How to Use unpersuaded in a Sentence

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• When Pence was unpersuaded, the judge wrote, Trump sent Eastman to review the plan with Pence's lawyer.
  — John Wagner, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Those who agreed with me agreed with me; those who did not remained unpersuaded.
  — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
• Some were simply unpersuaded that the use of force was the best available option for combating the Iraqi threat.
  — Hal Brands, National Review, 20 June 2019
• But a handful of Democrats are unpersuaded, holding to a view that was more widespread in the early Obama years, focusing on the risks of debt and spending.
  — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2021
• Those who were unpersuaded by a seventh FBI background check won’t be persuaded by an eighth, ninth or 10th one, either.
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• Peters said that Manchin, a centrist Democrat, is on board with the climate action outlined in the bill but is unpersuaded about some of the social support measures.
  — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Dec. 2021
• Even what should be a climactic moment leaves us both unpersuaded and unmoved.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• But many in the nation’s conservative government remained unpersuaded—as if 2019 being the hottest and driest year on record had little to do with the readiness of the land to ignite.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2020
• But the board was unpersuaded, voting near-unanimously to uphold the sanction.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
• The jury was unpersuaded after nurses and aides testified about how Allenbrooke would add staffing for state inspections while the rest of the time their pleas for more support went unheeded.
  — Jordan Rau, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2018
• The lack of traction in extension talks over the past few years have all parties — the team, his representatives and even Machado — unpersuaded that the home-grown talent will ultimately remain in Baltimore.
  — Eduardo A. Encina, baltimoresun.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• During oral arguments in September, the appeals court judges seemed equally unpersuaded.
  — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2020
• When Walker polled her congregation afterward, at least half were unpersuaded.
  — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
• Trump and his Republican allies on Capitol Hill say the entire impeachment inquiry is illegitimate and are unpersuaded by the House resolution formally setting out next steps.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
• At least two of the three judges on the federal appeals court panel hearing Trump's challenge appeared unpersuaded by the president's arguments that Congress' oversight powers don't give it the authority to examine presidential corruption.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 12 July 2019
• Left unmentioned is the fact that Lincoln’s First Inaugural, however artful legally, had left seceding states unpersuaded and unreconciled.
  — Harold Holzer, WSJ, 29 July 2018
• Milton’s contemporaries, however, were unpersuaded: Parliament passed its licensing law, which remained in place until 1695.
  — John J. Miller, WSJ, 6 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024