How to Use forced in a Sentence

forced

adjective
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  • Tied for third in the league in forced fumbles, recording five on the season.
    — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Lee had a monstrous first half with three tackles for loss and a forced fumble.
    — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The forced implementation of this idea led to years of famine.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
  • And there in forced perspective, in the half light, in the dimmed down bulbs of my makeup mirror sat this burned old bald man.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 24 June 2023
  • The notes of forced and artificial Eat, Freeze, Love charm added to the character just don’t work.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Quieter passages were often quite lovely, but too much of the rest was too loud and too forced.
    — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 3 June 2023
  • Yes, something about the whole setup is charade-y, a little forced, but that’s Kanye’s way.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2022
  • More than 340 companies have signed a pledge to keep their supply chains free of forced labor.
    — Ivan Penn, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The lone blemish was a forced throw that safety Brandon Joseph intercepted in the end zone in the final minute of the first half.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The forced pause of the pandemic has made a lot of us look at what in our lives was not working, and commit to leaving those things behind.
    — Claire Zillman, Fortune, 3 May 2021
  • Ryan did not live at the home, but police found no evidence of a forced entry, police said.
    — Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
  • McGregor recorded 26 tackles, nine of which went for loss to go with 4.5 sacks and a forced fumble.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Many of his misses were open looks; others appeared a little more forced.
    — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Her voice took on the forced lightness of someone trying to convince herself of something.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • The White Sox scored their first two runs in the seventh, a product of Rodriguez's inconsistencies pitching out of the stretch, but the Tigers tied the game in the eighth and forced extras.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 18 Sep. 2022
  • And without a job, a homeowner might become a forced seller.
    — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
  • His firm was in a forced bankruptcy; there was no way any widows and orphans had just received millions owed to them.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The result is many possessions that end with difficult, forced shots.
    — Christian Clark | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • The forced relocation shades an otherwise joyous meal with a sense of grief.
    — Lauren Saria, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2021
  • This ripped-from-the-headlines narrative accomplishes a feat far more creative, and a bit less forced.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The pandemic closed his hotel, forced layoffs and has left bookings at a fraction of normal.
    — Alexander Coolidge, cincinnati.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • That leads to burnout and ultimately more officers calling off sick, which in turn leads to more forced overtime, O’Malley wrote.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2021
  • There was no forced entry, police said, and at the time of the murders the mother was a mental health patient at Wadley Hospital, and the father left for work the evening before at 12:00 p.m.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The competitors perform their poses for a table of judges, mostly men, and smile throughout, often with forced grins.
    — Alice Li, Washington Post, 14 June 2023
  • But the Supreme Court’s ruling, by ushering in a regime of forced births, will be devastating even among those who have some financial means.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 6 July 2022
  • But since then, officials have framed the decision as essentially a forced one by the United States.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • And so began a forced trek of 155 miles across the sweltering southeastern Sahara Desert and into Sudan.
    — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Officer Truman Fitzgerald said the unknown suspect made forced entry and then fired on the victim.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That said, as of late, my neutrality has started to feel forced and uncomfortable.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The Grey’s Anatomy alum is still feeling the sting of his forced exit from the series, as evidenced by a random outburst taking place on his Twitter page.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 17 Nov. 2020

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