Example Sentences

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She knows of her uncle’s transgression and the king has forbade her from getting involved.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2022

Archbishop John C. Wester in Santa Fe has forbade communicants from taking the communion wafer on the tongue.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2020

We own apartments and recently had someone who wanted to rent a unit with a companion animal even though our apartments has forbade pets for years.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017

"And I dare not tell my father my fancies," she said, "for he is terrified at such things; and has forbade the servants to speak of such things."

From Oddsfish! by Benson, Robert Hugh