Example Sentences

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These ocean worlds are forbidding, hostile, sunless and remote — but many scientists say they also hold the key to life.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016

Hinson and other experts said more carriers are forbidding multiple embryos from being transferred at once.

From Washington Times • Jul. 6, 2014

A note in Mawby's file reads: "Considering the worsening operational conditions in Great Britain and after evaluating dangerous signals… we are forbidding all contacts with him."

From BBC • Jun. 28, 2012

In addition to its unconscionably lame response to the revelations about the life and death of enforcer Derek Boogaard, including his advanced brain deterioration, now the Rangers are forbidding their players from talking about Boogaard.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

The jeep trails do not cross it, nor even go close to it, for the mountains around it are forbidding, too steep and rocky even for jeeps, and are covered with thorny thickets.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien