How to Use coerce in a Sentence

coerce

verb
Definition of coercenext
Synonyms for coercenext
  • A confession was coerced from the suspect by police.
  • Strong coerced them under the guise that the funny pictures were for the market blog, according to the news release.
    — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
  • The Spurs coerced James Harden to play more than four quarters Tuesday.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • The public is being coerced into a biased Google world view, rather than being able to judge content on its merits.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The woman refused to get off the plane at first, but was eventually coerced by authorities and the pilot.
    — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Shepherd, Greenlee and Irvin were beaten to coerce confessions before they were convicted by an all-white jury.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • That victim feared that Foster and his associates were trying to coerce her into prostitution on a trip to Detroit.
    — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The suggestions complement another draft law, issued last month, to coerce owners to retire vehicles older than 15 years.
    — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Day, who was acquitted of one killing but convicted of the other in 1994, has long alleged that Chicago police coerced his confession.
    — Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Lydia’s ruffly red wedding dress from the original reappears on her in the sequel, as she’s once again coerced into marrying Keaton’s dastardly demon.
    — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Sextortion is a type of scam where predators trick or coerce a person, typically a minor, into sending explicit images or videos of themselves, then threatening to release the material if the victim does not send more images or send money.
    — Lindsey Choo, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

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