Example sentences for: forbidding

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

  • The source of the problem lies in the fact that there is no law forbidding ordinary mortals to bandy about terms like theory of relativity which only a few people in the world truly understand: to be sure, it is impossible to conceive of writing a definition for it that would fit into a dictionary's procrustean requirements.

  • But, of course, just about everything that a client ever tells a lawyer is a secret or a confidence . Similarly, there appear to be specific and severe rules forbidding "extrajudicial" remarks, such as lawyers' statements to the press about a pending case.

  • To sell his hero credentials, McCain aired a commercial filmed in Arlington National Cemetery, in violation of federal regulations forbidding partisan activities at the site.

  • Few of the somewhat forbidding buildings are open to the public, but you can go inside the 17th-century courtyard with its ornate sundial and see the outside of the Baroque library and domed church.

  • It is worth mentioning that the main characteristic of the Hays office censorship standards included forbidding the showing of a married couple in the same bed (fully clothed).


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