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cause to move back by force or influence
beat back the invaders
push back the urge to smoke
repel the enemy
How To Use force back In A Sentence
- When a prisoner exchange provided him with a chance to return to his native Groton, his relatives had to come to take him by force back to his birthplace.
- They had to force back the petals on the small yellow flowers and jam their heads into the narrowed openings.
- The PM told ministers to force backbenchers into line ahead of a key vote on the issue next Monday. The Sun
- My whole planet was ‘discommended’ nearly a century ago now, when the Earth fleets first beat our own spaceforce back into our own space, cutting us off from our ally worlds and then destroying them. Dark Mirror
- By Newton's third law the skin applies an equal force back and the molecule reverses direction.
- Unfortunately, the disciplined response needed to put the NASA workforce back in the right direction will not come from this administration or, for that fact, any administration or even the lawfully bound investigatory bodies! Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today - NASA Watch
- ‘Loids’: pieces of celluloid used to force back the latch of a Yale type lock