Example sentences for: forcibly

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

  • In 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French troops forcibly occupied Beijing and exacted treaty rights.

  • The papers report that Serbian police later forcibly removed the bodies, to conduct their own autopsies, which means in all likelihood that international authorities will never be able to confirm what actually happened.

  • Meanwhile, a Swiss professor disclosed that Swiss doctors forcibly sterilized retarded patients until 20 years ago.

  • For 300 years, until forcibly united in the late 18th century, they were separate kingdoms with related, but not always friendly, Malla rulers.

  • And it is no accident that the idea of revolution arose at a moment when the terrible fires of religious conflict had burnt out in Europe, and European thinkers had largely concluded that forcibly imposing possible Christian salvation on doctrinal enemies was not worth the enormous cost in blood and toil that two centuries of religious warfare had taken (the Thirty Years' War alone reduced the population of Germany by as much as 25 percent).


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