Example sentences for: forcibly

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

  • Despite some serious attempts by English and Dutch forces, the fort was never forcibly taken.

  • 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.

  • According to the Journal 's Dorothy Rabinowitz, Broaddrick says Clinton tore her pantyhose during the 1978 encounter, "held her down forcibly and bit her lips," leaving them "swollen to double their size," and tried to apologize 13 years later, just before announcing his campaign for president.

  • 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.

  • Here Fish claims that there is no such thing as liberalism, since liberalism's only way of dealing with those who don't agree with it is forcibly to exclude them, mostly by calling them mad.


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