How to Use coerce in a Sentence

coerce

verb
Definition of coercenext
Synonyms for coercenext
  • A confession was coerced from the suspect by police.
  • The boys have said they were coerced by police to do so.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
  • No one is ever forced or coerced to see a show against their will.
    — Scott Galbraith, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
  • All’s well that ends well, except for the final scene when OA had to face one of the teens that Joseph coerced.
    — Megan Stein, Country Living, 25 Sep. 2019
  • No one should be afraid to speak out or coerced to stay quiet.
    — Abby Gardner, Glamour, 20 Mar. 2018
  • No one should be afraid to speak out or coerced to stay quiet...
    — Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The toolkit that China has to use to coerce Taiwan is huge.
    — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2022
  • In our house, money wasn’t used to coerce us to do the right thing, but tasty treats were always fair game.
    — Sari Botton, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Kennedy’s case hinged, in part, on whether his players might have felt coerced to join him in prayer.
    — Charles McCrary, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • There’s no way to read The Woman in Me and not see that Britney was coerced at every stage.
    — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But a great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or to agree with it.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • All the while the wind howled without remorse, coercing the leafless limbs of maples and oaks into a kind of warped dance.
    — Hazlitt, 9 Dec. 2024
  • There was an edge to playing a second time, because we’d been coerced.
    — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 26 May 2017
  • The Spurs coerced James Harden to play more than four quarters Tuesday.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • This rig is meant to fall to the bottom, draw the bass’s attention to it along the way and then gently coerce them into biting.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 25 May 2023
  • The jurors disagreed on whether the confession could have been coerced.
    — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2018
  • But the company has denied the charge that the Rs750 payment to volunteers was meant to coerce them.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Most of my friends are either supportive or impressed, but there are a few who try to coerce me to drink.
    — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Across a vast array of circumstances, a State will be able to impose its moral choice on a woman and coerce her to give birth to a child.
    — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 24 June 2022
  • In each of the videos, Kim prods and pokes, trying to coerce each sister into flattering words about her weight.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Lawyers for Dassey have argued all along that the confession was coerced and therefore false.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
  • Strong coerced them under the guise that the funny pictures were for the market blog, according to the news release.
    — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Instead of throwing the fight for the mob, Hosseini is coerced to declare forfeit for the glory of Iran.
    — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Now, President Xi is using the power of the state to coerce women to have more children.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Toward the end of the first half, Jalen Wilson, a Jayhawk forward, missed two layups, but got his own rebound each time and was able to coerce the ball through the hoop.
    — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Alley confessed to the crime, but later said the confession was coerced.
    — Travis Loller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
  • In fact, the W.H.O. has no power to coerce any member state to give it information.
    — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 2 Sep. 2020
  • This is a blatant attempt to coerce the players to agree to the owners positions.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Weeks later Putin sought to coerce Ukraine back into the Russian orbit.
    — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
  • That same sentence will remain for anyone found guilty of tricking, pressuring or coercing someone into making the choice if the bill is ultimately passed.
    — David Hodari, NBC News, 29 Nov. 2024

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