were forbidding
- past progressive of forbid.
Example Sentences
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And yet, despite the great promise in these experiments, the challenges to creating an A.I. were forbidding.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 23, 2015
Rumors spread that many large companies were forbidding their employees to fly in Electras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus, he said, they were forbidding what God allowed, and winking at what He prohibited.
From Life of Luther by Koestlin, Julius
But if Urswicke's countenance were forbidding, not so was his voice.
From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.
He banged his fist down upon it, as though he were forbidding anybody to touch it—and also a little as though he himself dared not take it up.
From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
