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Example sentences for: forbidding

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

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.
Their anxiety is nothing compared with that of the prisoners once held in the forbidding Conciergerie (entrance on the quai de l’Horloge).
Their forbidding exteriors hide some of Palma’s most inviting courtyards, which can be glimpsed through the heavy metal grilles.
When the state banned big jackpots by forbidding machines to pay more than $125 to a player in a day, poker operators ignored the law.
A forbidding 17th-century fort, known as the Cidadela (citadel), is one of the few buildings to have survived the earthquake and tidal wave of 1755.