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 best workers were beaten as well, the whip and other assaults coercing them into doing even more work in even less time.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Vox, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Now, President Xi is using the power of the state to coerce women to have more children.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But two-thirds of them were released for lack of evidence, and the authorities accepted that most of the rebels had been duped or coerced into taking part.
    — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • And once victims were lured into this orbit, they were coerced to keep following the suspect's orders, prosecutors said.
    — NBC News, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Rather than needing to be coerced, the vasectomy was a joint decision made after lengthy partner discussions.
    — Dara T. Mathis, SELF, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Research published last year also found worse psychological well-being and physical health among women whose first intercourse was forced or coerced.
    — Lindsey Tanner, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • The sentencing faced a delay last month when a juror claimed the guilty verdict was coerced, FOX10 reported.
    — Fox News, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Covington used his position as a church leader to coerce employees, many of whom were members of the congregation, to comply, prosecutors have said.
    — Jonathan Drew, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
  • Many were coerced into making confessions — sometimes televised as propaganda.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Among the key evidence used to convict him of first-degree murder was testimony from two boys who later recanted, saying they had been coerced by police and prosecutors.
    — CBS News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Bubach said she was asked whether Ostadhassan had coerced her to convert and quizzed on the number of Islamic centers and mosques the couple had visited on their travels.
    — CNN, 3 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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

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