Example sentences for: forbade

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

  • By the late eighteenth century, the Catholic Church forbade additional burials inside churches, supposedly for public health reasons, but the ricos, the well-to-do, continued to buy their way into the churches.

  • The study protocol forbade 'strenuous physical activity' and any prescribed medications.

  • He ran for Congress from Massachusetts and, revitalized, served for 18 years--notably helping to overturn the shameful "gag rule" that forbade the reading of anti-slavery petitions on the floor of the House.

  • Regarding my traveling companion: Bob forbade me from talking about his germ phobia, although it was kind of hard to understand what he was saying through that surgical mask he was wearing.

  • Graves even reports that the god's mother, "foreseeing what trouble his lust would cause, forbade him to marry."


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