FORBIDDEN in a Sentence

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1. Sex was always a forbidden topic.
2. Women were forbidden to enter the sanctuary.
3. He was forbidden to leave the house, as a punishment.
4. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
5. Prisoners were forbidden to approach the fence under pain of death.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORBIDDEN
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forbidden
 a.  not allowed, especially by law
Classic Sentence: (57 in 4 pages)
1  Not only did the romantic aura of the dashing blockader hang about him but there was also the titillating element of the wicked and the forbidden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  But the doctor had forbidden Melanie to walk and Scarlett had to stay with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  You are, alas, Frank's wife and honor has forbidden my telling this to you.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  Of the ladies, this left only Mrs. Dorset unaccounted for, and Mrs. Dorset never came down till luncheon: her doctors, she averred, had forbidden her to expose herself to the crude air of the morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  They stood silent for a while after this, smiling at each other like adventurous children who have climbed to a forbidden height from which they discover a new world.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6  In the early autumn, news came from Wakamin that the sheriff had forbidden an organizer for the National Nonpartisan League to speak anywhere in the county.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
7  I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
8  Before the spring term of school was over, I could fight, play 'keeps,' tease the little girls, and use forbidden words as well as any boy in my class.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
9  Within the precincts of her home she felt like one who has entered and lingered within the portals of some forbidden temple in which a thousand muffled voices bade her begone.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
10  A deep and awful silence succeeded the utterance of the forbidden name.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
11  She instructed her daughter in the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female followers of Muhammad.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
12  In spite of his premeditated carefulness, the floor would now and then creak; his garments would rustle; the shadow of his presence, in a forbidden proximity, would be thrown across his victim.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
13  I therefore told him my small story, and laid stress on my being forbidden to inquire who my benefactor was.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
14  Without encroaching on forbidden ground, we may venture to say that there can be no doubt between ourselves of that fact.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXX
15  My aunt, I may observe, allowed my horse on the forbidden ground, but had not at all relented towards the donkeys.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
Example Sentence:
1  Prisoners were forbidden to approach the fence under pain of death.
2  Women were forbidden to enter the sanctuary.
3  After the invasion, people were forbidden to fly their national flag.
4  He was forbidden to leave the house, as a punishment.
5  They used a front organization to hide their trade in forbidden goods.
6  Sex was always a forbidden topic.
7  Street venders are forbidden to display their handicrafts on the wayside.
8  This aircraft is also equipped with a spear, which is very forbidden by the Geneva War Crimes Handbook.
9  Tom loved to tantalize his younger brother with candy; he knew the boy was forbidden to have it.
10  I have forbidden Adele to talk to me about her presents, and she is bursting with repletion: have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice.
11  People are forbidden to smoke in the arsenal for fear that a stray spark might set off the munitions stored there.