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

The interior walls of unpainted boards, which had been grateful in August, were forbidding in the chill.

From Main Street by Lewis, Sinclair

But if Urswicke's countenance were forbidding, not so was his voice.

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.

The surroundings were forbidding, but the captains of the vessels, by their speedy departure, had made going back impossible.

From Roger Davis, Loyalist by Baird, Frank