- present participle of forbid.
forbidding
Example Sentences
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Daniels isn’t pleased, informing LSU through his attorney that he “feels profoundly disrespected” and forbidding the school to use his name, image and likeness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
If your niece’s mother lives there rent-free, the trustee should be comfortable that doing so benefits your niece and there should be no rules forbidding it.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
The rules linking a sequence to a finished organism—biology’s “generative grammar”—remain, he acknowledges, a forbidding problem that may never fully yield.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Beijing retaliated by forbidding Chinese companies from ordering Boeing jets -- or receiving those already ordered.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
He knew how far they were from the nearest land; he knew when they had crossed the Antarctic Circle; he knew how many miles of forbidding ocean still lay between the crew and their home.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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