How to Use force on/upon in a Sentence

force on/upon

phrasal verb
Definition of force on/uponnext
  • The stars and stripes were out in full force on Friday in honor of Flag Day.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 14 June 2024
  • Michael Koman, who are leading the force on the spinoff.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 31 May 2024
  • She was still booked and busy, a stunning force on the runway.
    — Elyssa Maxx Goodman, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Prigozhin was the head of the Wagner Group, which ran a key mercenary force on the ground in Ukraine.
    — TIME, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Player to watch/Foxborough: Collins is a force on both ends for the Warriors.
    — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The White House task force on drug shortages hasn’t stepped in to referee.
    — Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Taylor has been a force on Mainstream Rock Airplay through the years, though.
    — Kevin Rutherford, Billboard, 15 Sep. 2023
  • At the depth the Titanic is at, the force on every square inch on its broken hull is about 5,500 pounds.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2023
  • This means there will be another force on the balloon, an air drag force.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 15 Feb. 2021
  • At 6 feet and 315 pounds, Arzola was a force on offense.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Fesperman had been appointed to the police force on the day he was killed.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 4 May 2024
  • The mere act of running creates a force on the ankle roughly 2½ times the person’s body weight, which in the case of Mahomes would be about 570 pounds.
    — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Second, the shape of the dome channels wind around it, depriving that wind of a flat surface to exert force on.
    — Christopher Flavelle, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • In classical mechanics, the Sun exerts a force on the Earth equal in magnitude to the force that the Earth exerts back on the Sun.
    — Larry M. Silverberg, Discover Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
  • In 2019, Grusch was asked to lead a government task force on UAP sightings.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 27 July 2023
  • Adams will be a force on special teams, and contribute on defense.
    — cleveland, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Since the Open era began, the only singles player to accomplish that tour de force on the men’s side is Rod Laver, who did so in 1969.
    — Gerald Marzorati, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Farmer's walks target your grip, upper back, and core without putting force on your lower back.
    — Andrew Heffernan, Men's Health, 4 May 2023
  • Unlike true leaf rakes, the Hooyman bow rake weighs in at 4.8 pounds for exerting force on denser substances.
    — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Garber announced the formation of the task force on January 19, just 38 days ago.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Young explains that the swinging birds exerted as much force on their beaks as a swinging gibbon does on its arm, if not more.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • When your neck is bent in a 45 degree angle looking down at your computer, your head can exert up to 50 pounds of force on your neck.
    — Talene Appleton, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
  • And Latin music has remained a force on streaming — so much that 2023 seems to be the biggest year for number one Latin hits on Spotify.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Credit for not playing the roundball lottery and playing with some force on offense.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The stress of moving from the medium of air to the much denser medium of water exerts a huge force on the bird's body, with an impact akin to tornadoes hitting the water.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The rapid loss of cabin pressure caused oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling, and suction as air rushed from the hole exerted force on people inside the plane.
    — David Koenig, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Loss of cabin pressure caused oxygen masks to drop from the ceiling and the force from air being sucked out of the plane exerted force on passengers and crew.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2024
  • LeTang, who later became a force on Broadway, spotted the boys’ talent and drive — and soon began private lessons.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • If Thompson is out, the Warriors won’t simply be short one great player, a major force on offense and defense.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • The task force released it alongside a parallel report by the school’s task force on anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian bias.
    — Andrew Lapin, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2024

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