How to Use reason with in a Sentence

reason with

phrasal verb
Definition of reason withnext
  • These peoples, then, were not to be reasoned with but to be controlled by force.
    — Marc Lynch, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Calder tries to reason with her softly, that perhaps the shot will work for 15 or 20 seconds of the teaser.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Trying to reason with someone like that is like trying to hand-feed a shark.
    — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • In the 13-minute short, a bartender tries to reason with a disgruntled veteran who placed a grenade on the counter of a gay bar.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the muscular man was trying to reason with the bread vender.
    — Mohammed Naseehu Ali, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • At some points in the video, Fortner-Kelly appears to attempt to reason with McCray as well.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2023
  • The majority of women surveyed who had to take time off of work due to menopause did not share the reason with their employer at least some of the time.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Her mother just stood there as Maria reasoned with her, until her father saw what was happening and took his wife out of the room.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2023
  • Anyone who’s tried to reason with the old-world Italian mentality of time and order will get it.
    — Hannah Elliott, Fortune Europe, 26 May 2024
  • And for all those reasons with those Fed rate increases, those industries are taking a hit.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In these games, Yudkowsky played the role of a computer program that had become sentient enough to reason with its creators.
    — Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • Like many politicians, Khan is trying to reason with a maelstrom of unreason.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Her mother’s boyfriend, Gadi Moses, had left to go reason with the militants and had yet to return, her mother explained.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In Taipei, some residents see little point in trying to reason with Beijing.
    — Lily Kuo, Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Afterward, in the postgame news conference, even USC players struggled to reason with the breakdowns.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Soon enough, everyone is either winning or losing points and cash for finding love or being there for the wrong reasons with Joey from The Circle.
    — Becca James, Vulture, 28 June 2023
  • For a moment, Matthew continued to try to reason with her and convince her of his sound financial strategy.
    — Orna Guralnik, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Kennedy could see officers on the other side of the door pointing guns at the protesters as Republican lawmakers tried to reason with the mob.
    — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The mother of his child, actress Dominique Perry, asked the judge to deny the petition for several reasons with the main one being that Zen has lived in Houston since her birth.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 13 Nov. 2023
  • In surveillance footage provided by the district, Young can be heard attempting to reason with a bus full of middle school students, who can be heard clamoring in the background.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • All the previous moves were made with the thought that Hamas is not only a terrorist organization but also a government that can be reasoned with.
    — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Democrats go after legacy admissions for bad reasons with dubious law, but the case for eliminating them is solid.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 26 July 2023
  • For unrelated, competitive reasons with another game in five days, Klingeberg was taken off in the 62nd minute in favor of rookie Reyna Reyes.
    — oregonlive, 18 June 2023
  • Time to reason with hurricane season Today is the first day of the 2023 Atlantic Hurricane season, and forecasters so far are calling for a near-normal season of activity.
    — Ike Morgan | [email protected], al, 1 June 2023
  • In a flashback, a doctor tries to reason with an inconsolable Khaizuran following his operation.
    — Graham Liddell, The Conversation, 6 May 2024
  • He was removed after the fourth inning for precautionary reasons with intercostal irritation and is considered day-to-day.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 11 May 2024
  • Feed-forward networks reason with vector math Recent research from Brown University revealed an elegant example of how feed-forward layers help to predict the next word.
    — Timothy B. Lee and Sean Trott, Ars Technica, 31 July 2023
  • For historic reasons with roots in Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, heirs’ property in urban areas is disproportionately found in neighborhoods with high concentrations of Black residents.
    — Amelia Winger, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Don’t accelerate his emotions by punishing him, reasoning with him or shaming him, and don’t downplay or try to stop his feelings by ignoring him, giving in to his demands, escaping him or becoming overly emotional yourself.
    — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The series was shoehorned into cricket's crammed calendar purely for financial reasons with contests featuring powerhouses India, Australia and England money-spinners even with such low stakes.
    — Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023

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