Example sentences for: forced

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

  • Something must have been appealing about the marshy outlet of the River Amstel where it meets the River IJ (pronounced “Ay”) — a tidal inlet of the Zuider Zee — even although the area flooded on a regular basis with water forced in by the prevailing winter winds.

  • Because no other information accompanied the tape, this reviewer was forced to depend on the more than slightly helter-skelter impression it leaves on the chartless listener.

  • Since the translator may not “substitute his own modern images for the old ones” how can the shepherd metaphor retain its old-fashioned pastoral simplicity when its sense and the reader's senses are jarred out of the authentic Bible-time setting and are forced into a frame of the “language we use today”?

  • My own reading of the passage turns as much on the word pale as on bond , but the word limit set by the essay competition forced me to be rather elliptical.

  • They were forced upon New Yorkers by a road-crazy, mass-transit-hating Robert Moses.


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