Sentence Examples

1. She resolved to prevail on her to spend a day at Hartfield.
2. In the movies, a kick-ass heroine might prevail against a gang of heavily armed men.
3. Moreover, these are only to prevent her coming out they may not prevail on her wanting to get in for then the Un-Dead is desperate, and must find the line of least resistance, whatsoever it may be.
4. He argued like a young man very much bent on dancing and Emma was rather surprized to see the constitution of the Weston prevail so decidedly against the habits of the Churchills.
5. Passepartout shook it, but with no perceptible effect for neither shaking nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind.
6. My undoubted scepticism caused considerable tumult in the breast of my host, which was not quietened until I let him prevail upon me to visit together the site of the happenings.
7. But great allowances should be given to a king who lives wholly secluded from the rest of the world, and must therefore be altogether unacquainted with the manners and customs that most prevail in other nations the want of which knowledge will ever produce many prejudices, and a certain narrowness of thinking, from which we and the politer countries of Europe are wholly exempted.
8. There was an unusual understanding of himself, which was unlike anything I had ever met with in a lunatic and he took it for granted that his reasons would prevail with others entirely sane.
9. A successful medical career, a beautiful fiancée, and the determination to prevail at all costs.
10. A union that strong would prevail against the magnificence of the Empire.