COERCE in a Sentence

Learn COERCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for COERCE, such as:

1. They were coerced into signing the contract.
2. In what sense does Dawkins want to coerce people into his belief?
3. Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks.
4. The Colonel was perhaps unaware that he had coerced his own wife into her grave.
5. The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.

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 Meanings and Examples of COERCE
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coerce
 v.  restrain by force, especially by law or authority; repress; curb
Classic Sentence:
1  "I can always sacrifice my feelings for my family's welfare," he said to himself, "but I can't coerce my feelings."
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
2  The Colonel was perhaps unaware that he had coerced his own wife into her grave.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
Example Sentence:
1  In what sense does Dawkins want to coerce people into his belief?
2  The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.
3  They were coerced into signing the contract.
4  Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks.
5  And yet woman is coerced through submission to the Symbolic order to abandon feminine desire and a peculiarly feminine relation to origins.