How to Use coerce in a Sentence

coerce

verb

• A confession was coerced from the suspect by police.
• The boys have said they were coerced by police to do so.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 18 June 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
• 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
• The jurors disagreed on whether the confession could have been coerced.
  — CBS News, 15 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The toolkit that China has to use to coerce Taiwan is huge.
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2022
• There was an edge to playing a second time, because we’d been coerced.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 26 May 2017
• The list is meant to coerce these countries into improving.
  — Satoshi Sugiyama, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• 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
• This is a blatant attempt to coerce the players to agree to the owners positions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• But critics and his lawyers claim he was coerced into a false confession.
  — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2019
• Alley confessed to the crime, but later said the confession was coerced.
  — Travis Loller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 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
• Tell him that an apology that is coerced is no apology at all.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 6 Aug. 2023
• Cameron was coerced to come back, serving as a producer and helping break the story.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• Both soon recanted, saying they were coerced, but to no avail.
  — Joseph Neff, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• The teens said they were coerced into confessing their involvement in the attack.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2019
• On the other hand, aid can be used to coerce journalists to change their norms and practices unduly.
  — Herman Wasserman, Quartz Africa, 9 July 2019
• Lawyers for Dassey have argued all along that the confession was coerced and therefore false.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
• No dollar figure could coerce Luongo to don the pads again.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• These relics have enormous power to unify feeling, and coerce it.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2020
• Some have since recanted, saying they were coached or coerced.
  — Robin McDowell, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2020
• The urge to preempt would dominate; whoever gets the first few weapons will coerce or preempt.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• Public employees and staff at state-dependent firms were more or less coerced to turn out to vote.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Israeli officials said the men were not coerced into speaking or abused.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• So where these student athletes coerced to get baptized?
  — al, 12 Jan. 2020
• Would scammers have coerced her to take money out of the bank or threatened physical harm to her or her family?
  — Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017

Last Updated: 27 Apr 2024