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Example sentences for "forcible"

Lexicographically close words:
forcemeat; forceps; forcer; forces; forceth; forcibly; forcing; forct; ford; fordable
  1. It is this forcible suppression of an instinct so deeply rooted in our nature, it is this, in my humble opinion, which first originates the morbid symptoms, that may often be observed in Urnings.

  2. Forcible abduction of a woman having substance, is felony by 3.

  3. Should anything forcible be meditated on these posts, it would possibly be thought prudent, previously, to ask the good offices of France to obtain their delivery.

  4. He landed on a softer couch than the rock, on Ichi, himself; and the Jap's remaining wind was expelled from his body with a forcible "woof!

  5. The boatswain, in a forcible sentence, disclosed his opinion of the Japanese gentleman's ancestral line.

  6. Carlyle was striking and picturesque, and, after a fashion, forcible to the last degree.

  7. The argument, though forcible and learned, was not in the first instance quite successful.

  8. Fitzjames's first action was to write a letter to the persecutor expressing in the most forcible English the opinion that the gentleman's proper position was not among the respectable but at one of her Majesty's penal settlements.

  9. As the party in the reserved seats waited for the crowd to pass out, Roland Graeme was warmly congratulated on his forcible address.

  10. We find the Most High decreeing perpetual bondage in certain cases, and more than all, as we have seen, the forcible separation of husband and wife among slaves.

  11. One is, the insurrection of the slaves, the massacre of the whites, and the forcible seizure and possession of power by the blacks throughout the South.

  12. Divorces among the Hebrews, allowed for the hardness of their hearts, were not parallel to the forcible separation of a slave from his wife under the hard necessity of choice between perpetual bondage with a wife, or freedom without her.

  13. This caused great indignation in the colonies and in Peru forcible resistance was offered to the royal decree.

  14. The course of Great Britain during the war was reviewed in language not less forcible and convincing because it was calm, dignified and restrained.

  15. An admirable and most forcible way to drive up water by fire, not by drawing or sucking it upwards, for that must be as the Philosopher calleth it, Intra sphæram activitatis, which is but at such a distance.

  16. I suspect that a forcible compression would hinder the gas from separating from the water, and on the contrary any tolerable degree of vacuum would hinder the water from attracting it; but perhaps part of both may be used.

  17. The highest truths should be conveyed by music alone, and would thus become more forcible and enduring.

  18. Both sides began to consider the advisability of taking forcible possession of the disputed territory, but the French were the first to take action.

  19. He attacked and pinioned his warder, took forcible possession of his keys, locked him into his own cell, and then quietly left the institution by climbing over the garden wall.

  20. The news of the forcible entry and pillage of houses and farms spread like wildfire.

  21. The personages of the Iliad and of the Odyssey are living and forcible types of individual character.

  22. In a few descriptive passages he shows a command of the language of forcible poetic imagination.

  23. There must have been many drawbacks to the popularity of the poem in a more critical time, when strong enthusiasm and forcible conception fail to interest, unless they are combined with the harmonious execution of a work of art.

  24. To give you an idea of the energy of his royal highness’s language, I ought to set apart an objection to writing, or rather intimating, certain forcible words, and beg leave to show you in genuine colours a royal sailor.

  25. He (Johnson) repeated to us, in his forcible melodious manner, the concluding lines of the Dunciad.

  26. Now this argument, forcible as it appears at first sight, is really at fault both in its premiss and in its conclusion.

  27. How forcible a comment are his life and labors upon the apostolic declaration made many centuries afterwards: "Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

  28. His imagery is as forcible as that of Isaiah, but how different, and how powerfully adapted to his end!

  29. At the same time it is as forcible as it is peculiar, a style every way adapted to the work laid upon him.

  30. The book begins with a forcible exhortation to the rulers of the earth to strive after wisdom as the fountain of righteousness and the guide to immortality and happiness.

  31. Forcible feeding, the Cat and Mouse Act, were the weapons of the Government.

  32. Archdeacon Paley has, in these two introductory chapters, given us the advantage of simple, but forcible language, with extreme ingenuity, in illustration.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forcible" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acid; active; acute; aggressive; animated; authoritative; beefy; biting; bouncing; brisk; cogent; corrosive; cutting; decided; driving; dynamic; effective; effectual; emphatic; energetic; enterprising; enthusiastic; forceful; forcible; hale; hard; hardy; hearty; hefty; husky; imperative; impetuous; impressive; incisive; intense; irresistible; italicized; keen; kinetic; lively; living; lusty; mettlesome; mighty; mordant; nervous; nervy; obstinate; operative; penetrating; piercing; poignant; pointed; positive; potent; power; powerful; prepotent; puissant; robust; rugged; ruling; sensational; sinewy; slashing; sledgehammer; smacking; snappy; spanking; spirited; stalwart; steely; stout; strapping; stressed; striking; strong; sturdy; telling; trenchant; valid; vibrant; vigorous; violent; vital; vivacious; vivid; zestful; impetuous; impressive; incisive; intense; irresistible; italicized; keen; kinetic; lively; living; lusty; mettlesome; mighty; mordant; nervous; nervy; obstinate; operative; penetrating; piercing; poignant; pointed; positive; potent; power; powerful; prepotent; puissant; robust; rugged; ruling; sensational; sinewy; slashing; sledgehammer; smacking; snappy; spanking; spirited; stalwart; steely; stout; strapping; stressed; striking; strong; sturdy; telling; trenchant; valid; vibrant; vigorous; violent; vital; vivacious; vivid; zestful