forbidden love

Example Sentences

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Trespasses explores cross-community forbidden love, not across the barricades but across the bar.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

Woven throughout the storyline of Tita de la Garza and Pedro Muzquiz’s forbidden love is the power struggle between a small pool of wealthy landowners and politicians and the people who serve them.

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

“Hauntings, exorcisms, incantations, forbidden love — “The Hacienda” transports one to a world where love triumphs over demons.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

WINNER: Tyler Perry, “A Jazzman’s Blues” “A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke-joint blues in the Deep South.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Then he says, “But that sounds like a song of forbidden love, Reina. That must mean there’s someone here you secretly love.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar