forced march
Example Sentences
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One word encapsulates this forced march of slaves westward, along with a disproportionate part of the Black role in America’s economic emergence: cotton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
The forced march ordered by Congress removed 80,000 Native Americans from the eastern United States.
From Washington Times • Sep. 21, 2022
It’s the kind of sly reversal that Müller clearly delights in; this is one of those rare books about a pressing subject that reads less like a forced march than an inviting stroll.
From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2021
Hord’s forced march had kept him warm, but now, in his summer buckskin, he was freezing.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
