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
They hear approaching footsteps, and Valentine prevails upon him to enter a side room just as her father and husband come in at the main door with a company of Catholic noblemen.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Then Rose prevails upon the wicked relative to relent.
From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Henry A. Lytton
