prevails upon
Example Sentences
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The corporate chieftain prevails upon Beale to “preach” a new “evangel” to his audience in which he decries individualism and embraces what the movie’s narrator calls “the corporate cosmology of Arthur Jensen.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2021
Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
He'd not be a bit too good to trump up any kind of stories about not being treated well, so as to prevails upon her not to let him come back.
From Lizzy Glenn or, The Trials of a Seamstress by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Golaud prevails upon her to go with him—the night is coming on, and she cannot remain alone in the forest.
From Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score by Gilman, Lawrence
Repairing thither, I find, in charge of the ferry-train, an old Anglo-Indian engineer, who prevails upon me to accept his hospitality for the night.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
