How to Use coercive in a Sentence

coercive

adjective

• And a lot of it has to do with being a coercive threat against the family.
  — CBS News, 30 Dec. 2020
• Sites that fail to comply with the new law will face fines and other coercive measures.
  — James Vincent, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2018
• These requests weren’t coercive, the scholars told me, nor were they done in secret.
  — Han Zhang, The New Yorker, 11 June 2024
• China’s health tracking system is state-led and far more coercive.
  — Clay Chandler, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2020
• Mala won’t cede her knowledge of her husband or of life to the coercive tidiness of the trauma plot.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• Then, be aware of coercive and deceptive posts meant to warp your perspective.
  — Molly McKew, Cosmopolitan, 19 Mar. 2018
• And some have worried that officials will turn to more coercive measures.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2021
• In turn, states and militias are using them as powerful coercive tools.
  — Andrew Metrick, Foreign Affairs, 28 Mar. 2024
• This technique—coercive charm, seduction through sleight of hand—is one of his hallmarks.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The challenges of avoiding the coercive power of money was sort of too much to handle.
  — Adam Green, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2018
• Right now the crown prince acts with the authority of the king and controls the coercive powers of state.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Defense attorneys have said there is no real choice and have denounced the process as coercive.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, latimes.com, 10 July 2018
• The coercive crowd policing of the past doesn’t work, and often makes tense situations worse.
  — Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
• The goal of coercive control is to strip a victim of autonomy.
  — Kellie Lynch, Chron, 23 May 2022
• The court also weighed in on whether their invitation for the audience to join them in prayer was a coercive act.
  — Bill Mears, Fox News, 14 July 2017
• If the boundary between them is compromised, the church too will become coercive.
  — Kenneth Seeskin, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
• But the administration’s stance has not changed, and the coercive tactics have spread.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2020
• The monthly prompt might just alert you to someone eavesdropping on your system, such as a coercive partner.
  — Barry Collins, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
• Soft power is the use of non-coercive influence in diplomacy.
  — NBC News, 1 July 2020
• But Florida’s large-scale survey shows far less support for coercive protest.
  — Jason Jewell, Sun Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026
• Such reports fail to mask the coercive nature of government programs.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2021
• Some Uber drivers filed a lawsuit saying the in-app ads were coercive, but a judge was dubious about their claims.
  — Carolyn Said, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2020
• The high court found his prayer was not coercive and should not be regarded as state or government support for religion.
  — Major Garrett, CBS News, 1 July 2022
• That’s the only fair and non-coercive system for private and public employers alike.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 29 Sep. 2017
• There is such an epidemic of domestic violence and coercive control and abuse all over the world.
  — Jamie Wilson, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2023
• For one thing, getting a prenup done too close to the day puts the agreement on legally shaky ground, because it could be considered coercive.
  — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 23 June 2026
• That’s very different than using the power of government in a coercive way.
  — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
• How, and why, coercive control can be the greatest danger in a relationship?
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• But the documents confirm the coercive nature of the crackdown.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Nov. 2019
• Those who exploit older adults commonly do so by using coercive tactics to control them.
  — Nina A. Kohn, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025