force back
Example Sentences
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Mayor Karen Bass has called for the department to replenish its ranks, proposing a budget that takes the force back up to 9,500.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2023
Meanwhile, the Canucks got an offensive force back in Brock Boeser.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2018
With men away at the front lines, women assumed roles in the work force back home that hastened their emancipation and changed social ways forever.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
If a force is exerted on an object, it must be exerted by something else, and the object will exert an equal and opposite force back on that something.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
I bit the inside of my cheek to force back the tears.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
