FORBID in a Sentence
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63 example sentences for FORBID, such as:
1. The doctor forbids him to smoke.
2. I forbid anyone to touch that clock.
3. My feelings in every respect forbid it.
4. They forbid any ships to enter the water.
5. My sense of tact would forbid an honest answer to you.
2. I forbid anyone to touch that clock.
3. My feelings in every respect forbid it.
4. They forbid any ships to enter the water.
5. My sense of tact would forbid an honest answer to you.
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Meanings and Examples of FORBID
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forbid
v. command against
v. keep from happening or arising; make impossible
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 And I can't forbid the house to a man who thinks what my husband thinks.
2 Each time he arrived in Atlanta, she set her fat mouth and told the girls that she would meet him at the door and forbid him to enter.
3 From this conviction of wrongness, Frank gathered courage to forbid Scarlett to do such a thing, and so strong were his remarks that she, startled, relapsed into silence.
4 Frank, full of the pride of new fatherhood, summoned up courage enough to forbid Scarlett leaving the house while conditions were so dangerous.
5 Yet our laws positively and utterly forbid any efficient general educational system, and they do it wisely, too; for, just begin and thoroughly educate one generation, and the whole thing would be blown sky high.
6 Miss Ophelia was uneasy that Eva should fancy Topsy's society so much, and implored St. Clare to forbid it.
7 If she is, God forbid that she should suffer as guilty.
8 "Lord forbid that I should want anything for not standing in Pip's way," said Joe, staring.
9 My dear,' said Mr. Micawber, 'your papa was very well in his way, and Heaven forbid that I should disparage him.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 12. LIKING LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT NO BETTER, I FO...
10 Heaven forbid, Copperfield,' he replied, 'that I should do any man an injustice: still less, Mr. jorkins.
11 Martha,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'God forbid as I should judge you.
12 Heaven and the immortal gods," he exclaimed, "forbid that you should leave my house to go on board of a ship.
13 My feelings in every respect forbid it.
14 Because honour, decorum, prudence, nay, interest, forbid it.
15 But a proclamation was soon issued, to forbid it upon pain of death.
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1 I forbid anyone to touch that clock.
2 They forbid any ships to enter the water.
3 My sense of tact would forbid an honest answer to you.
4 Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
5 Miss Minchin's demeanor was so stern and forbidding that she could quell any unrest among her students with one intimidating glance.
6 A rock face, so forbidding from a distance, shows fracture lines from close up: nothing is forever, everything changes.
7 The court has issued an injunction forbidding them to strike for a month.
8 In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding.
9 She obtained a restraining order forbidding her partner from seeing their two children.
10 Concealed by a forbidding row of security guards, the pop-star left the building.
11 "The world set a red line when governments representing 98% of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons was abhorrent and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war." Obama said.
12 Once the rover touches down, the crew will see the landscape through the machine's eyes only. These trips into the forbidding desert help them to develop a gut sense of the Martian terrain.
13 The doctor forbids him to smoke.
14 The Church's canon law forbids remarriage of divorced persons.
15 Brazil's constitution forbids the military use of nuclear energy.