forcible

Example Sentences

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The play violated an NFL rule prohibiting the use of any part of the helmet or facemask to initiate forcible contact to an opponent’s head or neck area.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Its survival and growth since the forcible closure of its Beijing mother church in 2018 only adds embarrassment to alarm.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

And they said ordering hundreds of thousands to move south could amount to forcible transfer under international law.

From BBC • Sep. 9, 2025

Judge John Kane in Pennsylvania condemned as insurrectionists those who “counsel and instigate others to acts of forcible oppugnation to the provisions of a statute.”

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2024

The forcible recalling was simply an unpleasant memory.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck