Example sentences for: forcibly

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

  • The NYT fronts an investigation into whether Washington state mental-health workers should have forcibly institutionalized Furrow.

  • In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald Friday welcomed the U.N.-brokered agreement on self-determination for the people of East Timor but expressed doubts about the policing of next August's referendum by the Indonesian army, "which invaded East Timor, forcibly annexed the territory, and has maintained a policy of brutal pacification" there.

  • "On the NATO side, two points are important: first, the inviolability of frontiers has been forcibly reaffirmed--in other words, there won't be a partition of Kosovo; and second, after having talked of a force 'under NATO command,' they are now talking about a force directed by the United Nations 'with a NATO kernel.

  • Napoleon came to distrust his Spanish ally and forcibly replaced the king of Spain with his own brother, Joseph Bonaparte.

  • His troops razed hundreds of Kurdish villages, massacred thousands of Kurdish fighters and civilians, and forcibly relocated many more to southern Iraq.


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