forbidding

How To Use forbidding In A Sentence

• The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
• They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
• The saint's reaction was instant and he heaped maledictions on the unfortunate salmon, forbidding it or any of its kind ever to enter the lake again.
• So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
• Parliament has passed an Act forbidding the killing of rare animals.
• The opening is not such a problem, it's the vast forbidding swoop of the gaping door itself. Times, Sunday Times
• That Thoreau gave the impression of being what country folk call a crusty person -- curt and forbidding in manner -- seems pretty well established. The Last Harvest
• That is, the Olympian Zeus 'ban on human creativity: which shows Zeus's intended bestialization of all mortal human individuals, by forbidding, not only the use, but the discovery of any universal physical principle, such as "fire," or, today, nuclear-fission power. LaRouche's Latest
• There was something a little severe and forbidding about her face.
• Special lasers identify seismic faults in forbidding mountain ranges. Times, Sunday Times