Example Sentences

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The district, drawing up extensive policies around Kennedy’s return, is forbidding spectators or media on the field during or immediately following games.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2023

One rule that seems to already have been implemented is forbidding the use of a riding crop to urge horses unless it’s required for safety.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2019

This is forbidding stuff, but Ms. Coloff’s touch is light, her presence warm.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2019

The snow leopard’s habitat, which stretches across twelve Central Asian countries, is forbidding.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 30, 2018

It was in perfect accord with the character of Ferrara, which even now is forbidding.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand