How to Use unpersuaded in a Sentence

unpersuaded

adjective
  • Those who agreed with me agreed with me; those who did not remained unpersuaded.
    — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Even what should be a climactic moment leaves us both unpersuaded and unmoved.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
  • Some states remain unpersuaded by Roblox’s child-safety moves.
    — Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 13 Apr. 2026
  • 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 the board was unpersuaded, voting near-unanimously to uphold the sanction.
    — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2021
  • When Walker polled her congregation afterward, at least half were unpersuaded.
    — Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • During oral arguments in September, the appeals court judges seemed equally unpersuaded.
    — Kristine Phillips, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • The justices seemed unpersuaded that fair market value is the correct basis of compensation after the government sells a home to cover back taxes.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Warrants that comply with the Fourth Amendment wouldn’t count as a taking, Roberts added, nor would inspections that were required to obtain a health and safety license of some sort. Justice Stephen Breyer was unpersuaded by Roberts’ reasoning.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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