Example Sentences

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“It was a choiceless choice,” Pranom said through an interpreter.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

Her observations could well apply to Jews forced to make choiceless choices during the Holocaust.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2022

“That’s what I call a choiceless choice,” says David B. Thronson, a professor at the Michigan State University College of Law, who helped found the Immigration Law Clinic.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2017

I wish I hadn't needed it done, and I find forcing it on a choiceless newborn cruel and irrational.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2012

Anyway, choiceless, she went, leaving husband, sister, Rose Dear and May behind, and if she worried, the blond baby helped soothe her, and kept her entertained for eighteen years, until he left home.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison