forbid
Example Sentences
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We have the book to thank for so many tropes: forbidden love, friends-to-lovers.
From Los Angeles Times
"We came together to stop war, we came together to build a market. But we always forbade ourselves to think of power."
From BBC
Many private schools have gone further, pressuring parents to forbid the apps at all until a certain age and to tightly control use thereafter.
From Los Angeles Times
To partake of the forbidden apple cake—and who could resist it?—is to know that joy is always ringed by sorrow, and made sweeter for it.
A kitchen cat stared defiantly from the forbidden counter; Grief was nowhere in sight.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
