How to Use forbidding in a Sentence

forbidding

adjective

• The hadal zone is the earth’s most forbidding frontier.
  — Susan Casey, Outside Online, 22 Oct. 2019
• When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the scene is set in a forbidding moor.
  — Washington Post, 10 Aug. 2021
• When Gary heads out to find him, the story grows forbidding and a little kinky.
  — Anita Felicelli, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• But here’s where the movie starts to beckon us onto a rather forbidding track.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
• Rather, the moon is wet, abundant with water that is largely stored away in the form of ice in the forbidding craters at its poles.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2023
• The future may be unknown and forbidding, but one thing is clear.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• The west coast of Ireland is home to miles of wild and forbidding landscape, and the warmest most hospitable people in the world.
  — Usa Today Travel Team, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2020
• These are totems to people who made art through forbidding years.
  — Jenn Pelly, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2020
• All are intended to make the city feel less forbidding.
  — Curbed, 17 Feb. 2023
• Yet the most forbidding aspect of the movie isn’t any of those squeamish occurrences.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 May 2022
• The exterior looks forbidding, but the inside of the home is park-lodge chic, with hand-hewn southern white oak and 47 one-of-a-kind doors.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Like them, she will be greeted by a forbidding array of problems.
  — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• In the clinical white of the gallery, art can be forbidding, aggrieved, elite, academic.
  — Walker Mimms, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• Hit the tee shot at least 250 yards into what could be a decidedly forbidding wind.
  — Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• Nearly all wild horses live in the Great Basin of Nevada and surrounding states, in some of the most forbidding land in America.
  — New York Times, 12 May 2018
• Rollin’s depiction of the area is stark and forbidding, though his depiction of the lovers is natural and charming.
  — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 1 Mar. 2018
• The East Village streets during the pandemic became forbidding places at 2 o’clock in the morning, when the puppy needed a walk.
  — John Leland, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
• And her absence at St. Paul’s, while not a surprise given the forbidding logistics, was a letdown.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 4 June 2022
• The elder Trump is cast as a cold and forbidding patriarch who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps – his eldest son.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 8 July 2020
• These were simplified brief restatements of the forbidding articles of 1960 on which they were based.
  — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 4 Apr. 2021
• This wasn’t a joyous festival of sport; this was a forbidding fortress of separation.
  — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2022
• Precisely because of its forbidding location, Amarna escaped the fate of sites in the more urban north, which were plundered and built over.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 29 May 2024
• Children and families came in through a forbidding brick entrance.
  — James S. Russell, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2020
• This would supply the template for two later books, in which a single vicious memory is at once forbidding and revealing—an event as lock and key.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• Exactly how the Devils River got its forbidding name is lost to history, but there is little doubt the harsh terrain and fierce natives who once reigned here played a role.
  — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 19 June 2020
• Celebrities have a unique power to amplify an issue to a wide and diverse audience, and make a touchy subject less forbidding.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 11 Dec. 2023
• Southwell, hands folded and eyes focused laser-like ahead of him, sits formally before a rich green wall nearly as forbidding as his dark clothing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Perhaps its rightful home is streaming, but that’s just a way of saying that in its stolid and forbidding way, it seems destined to be tossed, like everything else, into the vast sea of content.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023
• Coach Frank Reich better find some bubble gum and baling wire in the coming weeks if his team is to survive its forbidding early season schedule.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2021
• The fences at Arizona's Capitol have made for a forbidding sight at what has long served as a public square in a city famous for otherwise lacking any obvious center.
  — Andrew Oxford, azcentral, 10 June 2020

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024