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
  • As for the three-game series idea, well, Few might be persuadable.
    — Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • One way to think about them is a possibly persuadable pool of voters.
    — CBS News, 30 July 2020
  • And those persuadable voters in focus in these final days of the race.
    — NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • But are there still persuadable moderates out there?
    — Tad Friend, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
  • And that outer suburb base for persuadable voters is not new.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • The point is to reach voters who may not be paying attention or are still persuadable.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But other polling suggests that the truly persuadable voters are drawn to those who can restore hope.
    — Time, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Some of these folks, the Biden people have concluded, are persuadable.
    — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2022
  • To that end, both sides are racing to define her for persuadable voters in battleground states.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Can Ukraine get the upper hand here, and are these top advisers going to be persuadable?
    — CBS News, 24 Nov. 2024
  • But Iran is absolutely not as persuadable as Venezuela has been so far.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Suburban women are seen as one of the only persuadable voting groups.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • But even if those nutters aren’t persuadable, perhaps the more moderate middle is.
    — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The actual number of persuadable voters is very small.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2026
  • 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
  • Of course, persuadable voters won’t be the only important factor this fall.
    — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Numbers back up the idea that there are many persuadable voters still out there, according to Portman.
    — Tyler Olson, Fox News, 1 May 2022
  • The ads aim to reach persuadable voters on digital platforms such as Hulu.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, azcentral, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Still, his team believes his policy platform offers much for persuadable Democrats to like.
    — Steve Peoples, The Denver Post, 23 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • Looking ahead Some potential voters may be persuadable in the campaign ahead.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2024
  • But there is a bigger share of these persuadable voters who are trying to decide between a third-party or writing in or just staying home.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Being persuadable is way harder than being persuasive, and the best tool is engaging with smart people who challenge your point of view.
    — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023

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