How to Use coerce in a Sentence

coerce

verb

• A confession was coerced from the suspect by police.
• There was no evidence, just coerced confessions from four of the defendants.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
• Trump alone has imposed sanctions in hopes of coercing the Iranians into new talks.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 20 June 2019
• Steel, at one point, even appeared to allege that the witness may have been coerced or intimidated ahead of his testimony.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2024
• The answer is very simple: no buyer of Chrome would pay full price assuming a sale of it by Google in light of market knowledge that the sale would be coerced.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
• The defendant had admitted to the crime, but Ross concluded the defendant’s confession had been coerced.
  — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• But her account contradicts his defense attorneys' contention that Epstein never used violence or coerced anyone who gave him massages.
  — Jennifer Peltz, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
• Allegations of police beatings designed to coerce confessions.
  — Michael Levenson, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 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
• The Spurs coerced James Harden to play more than four quarters Tuesday.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Strong coerced them under the guise that the funny pictures were for the market blog, according to the news release.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 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
• Now, President Xi is using the power of the state to coerce women to have more children.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024