How to Use forbidden in a Sentence

forbidden

adjective

• The forbidden list includes sports, movies and, yep, love.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2018
• Maier explained that he was drawn to the game, like many of his peers, because of the forbidden nature of drug content at the time.
  — Zack Huffman, Wired, 28 June 2021
• The two then kneel head-to-head, throwing each other’s arms and torsos to and fro in a sort of tragic and forbidden love.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2017
• The District’s public schools aren’t the only ones that put sunscreen on the forbidden list.
  — Perry Stein, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2018
• Of course, Samay is attracted to the forbidden, and starts to cut classes to go to the Galaxy cinema.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
• In the House bill, the tax benefits would only be stripped from the part of the account involved in the forbidden transaction.
  — James Bandler, ProPublica, 7 July 2021
• To everyone else, the land beyond this road, forbidden or not, looked good.
  — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The weary narrator floats away in a dream, in search of the unknowable, the deep forbidden music somewhere off in the distance.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 7 June 2018
• At the same time, the Exclusion Zone is a forbidden lure to Ukrainians and Belarusans.
  — John Wendle, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2016
• In an attempt to build an army, the Black Heretic used old forbidden magic and created the Fold instead.
  — Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 27 Apr. 2021
• The film, a family drama and a tale of forbidden love, follows a family in the South as 40 years of lies and secrets come to a head.
  — Carson Burton, Variety, 6 Sep. 2022
• In 1939, Luna suffers a broken heart but finds love again with a forbidden man.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 24 July 2022
• These books are about love, travel, food, and a forbidden romance with an English prince.
  — Kathryn Lindsay, refinery29.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• Most houses don’t travel at all, let alone in the forbidden direction on a one-way street.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
• Image At the center of this novel is a forbidden forest that sits at the northern edge of a nameless town.
  — Gabino Iglesias, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024
• What follows is a story of vengeance, intrigue and forbidden love.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 17 May 2023
• Proceed directly into the forbidden room; enjoy the view as the floor gives way.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 29 Oct. 2019
• Two British tourists were also spotted walking on the forbidden trail.
  — Livia Borghese and Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 12 July 2022
• The film unravels 40 years of secrets and lies in a tale of forbidden love and family drama soundtracked by juke joint blues in the deep South.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• During the fourth course, charred broccolini with forbidden rice and sweet sriracha lime sauce, the Pig King and the monkey got into a shouting match.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
• But the government found that the more heavy-handed its messaging on radio stations and at youth-group meetings, the more the youth flocked to forbidden artists.
  — Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• And because the internet is the home for forbidden snackers of all types, some people wanted to drink that sweet, sweet mummy broth.
  — Shoshana Wodinsky, The Verge, 20 July 2018
• Tech firms are expected to keep content on file for 60 days and report to the police any forbidden content.
  — Steven Lee Myers and Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
• In Japan, where my wife and I don't own a car, even the local buses became forbidden ground this spring, and we were reduced to being two-legged creatures again.
  — Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Oct. 2020
• When the travelers begin to explore the house, the forbidden upper floors seem like far reaches of the unconscious.
  — J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader, 26 Oct. 2017
• The forbidden love between an elf and a human represented by Arondir and Bronwyn is a bit of Aragorn and Arwen.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• Ali, a shy and curious young man with a passion for reading, was thrilled to be holding such a forbidden object.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2022
• This was a forbidden question for the Crusaders, who believed that in crucifying Jesus the Jews had turned their backs on God.
  — John Kaag, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• And in which there is no rescuing prince, though the Mulder girls, unassisted, do venture to the forbidden bridge that marks the village boundary.
  — Anna Mundow, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• Travel to and from the United States and United Kingdom remains forbidden.
  — Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024