forced march
Example Sentences
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One word encapsulates this forced march of slaves westward, along with a disproportionate part of the Black role in America’s economic emergence: cotton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
He had just arrived by bus from Pirot on the Serbia-Bulgaria border, he said, after a gruelling 25-day forced march across Bulgaria.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2023
And he survived a forced march when his weight dropped from 135 pounds to about 90 pounds before he could escape on April 15, 1945.
From Washington Times • Nov. 21, 2020
The forced march of serial questioning imposes a kind of order, he said.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2020
We went on a forced march for ten minutes toward the village.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
