forbid
Example Sentences
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Without that constant bullying, maybe a few will allow themselves to think forbidden thoughts or to ask questions.
From Salon
Early this year, the FTC filed its lawsuit against Pepsi based on a decades-old law called the Robinson-Patman Act that forbids suppliers from selling goods at different prices to retailers.
Not until I sat down to write the script that would provide a space for me to express the taboo, the forbidden, the absurd and the terrifying feelings I knew I wasn’t alone in.
From Los Angeles Times
Ford can focus its investments on gas-powered trucks and SUVs that are popular with customers and earn—dare we say the forbidden word—profits.
In this forbidding climate, Genly Ai, an emissary from Terra, another planet, struggles to understand a place where gender roles, modes of communication and beliefs are entirely different from those at home.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
