Example sentences for: coercion

How can you use “coercion” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In its groveling 1990 editorial apology, the Inquirer said: "Our critics countered that to dangle cash or some other benefit in front of a desperately poor woman is tantamount to coercion.

  • Coercion is inevitable.

  • The New York Times leads instead with the decision by Israel's Supreme Court to ban the use of physical coercion in the interrogation of Palestinian prisoners, a story that the LAT and WP front.

  • But over the long run the incentive to cheat is simply too high, and the measures of coercion and punishment simply too weak, to keep everyone in line.

  • If the Nazi state had rested only on coercion, it's doubtful that Hitler could have persuaded millions of Germans to remain loyal to him, and to fight heroically to the end of the war.


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