forcibly

[ US /ˈfɔɹsəbɫi/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːsəbli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a forcible manner
    keep in mind the dangers of imposing our own values and prejudices too forcibly
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How To Use forcibly In A Sentence

  • He had me by the arm and lifted me, forcibly, to my feet.
  • A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
  • The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
  • ‘We can forcibly remove the blockades if we are sure that there is enough evidence that the blockaders are illegal,’ he told the Post.
  • By the word spado, the Romans very forcibly expressed their abhorrence of this mutilated condition. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2
  • Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophize, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils, ... nor, I think, will the human race. All the President's Lies
  • The word driveth does not mean that he was compelled forcibly against his will to go there, but that he was inclined to go there by the Spirit, or was led there. Barnes New Testament Notes
  • The case was forcibly put by the speaker.
  • After losing another planning appeal, residents have fortified the site in a bid to prevent attempts to forcibly remove them.
  • When she is forcibly enchanted by a man she is tailing for her faerie liege lord, she not only loses fourteen years of her life to being a fish, she loses everything she worked for in the human world, including her family. Rosemary and Rue: A Knight in Shining…Satin? « A Working Title
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