How to Use force field in a Sentence
force field
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But force fields don’t heal anything.
—Archana Shrestha, Time, 16 Apr. 2026
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The vaccines aren’t a force field that wards off all things covid.
—oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2021
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The first two times, Ohio State got red-zone stops to force field goals.
—Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 19 Nov. 2022
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And force fields each have 62 degrees of freedom.
—Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2026
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There is a force field of grief around him, and nothing to do but mount up and start the long ride back to camp.
—Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
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There is a force field of grief around him, and nothing to do but mount up and start the long ride back to camp.
—Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 1 Feb. 2024
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Indy forced field goals on each of Houston’s first three trips inside the red zone.
—Michael Marot, The Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2019
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Gold medals don’t provide some magical force field from those rooting against you.
—Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
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Behind them, the secondary created a force field that sealed off the deeper halves.
—Rainer Sabin, Detroit Free Press, 25 Oct. 2020
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But my mother edged around to the front and sat down, her unflappable smile a force field against derision.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2019
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Now writer after writer was bouncing off my nervous force field.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
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The headphone force field can also help signal the inverse—that a nearby stranger doesn’t pose a threat.
—Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 June 2019
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Most people listen alone, sealed away in their car or behind the force field of noise-cancelling earbuds.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
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Heat domes bring hot, sinking air and act as a force field that diverts the jet stream north into Canada.
—Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
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Twice, the Frogs forced field goals on Arkansas drives that reached inside the 5-yard line.
—Carlos Mendez, star-telegram, 9 Sep. 2017
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Confined by an electric force field, the ion hovers 30 microns above the surface of the chip.
—Sophia Chen, WIRED, 20 June 2019
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The overall impact of the place creates a force field that’s greater than any individual that tries to put its mark on it.
—Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
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Thanks to the fiery Lawrence, the angel becomes a force field, sure, but she is denied the chance to truly take control.
—Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
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Its precise descriptions of force fields and antimatter cannons seemed ready-made for the screen.
—Samuel Horti, New York Times, 6 Nov. 2023
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As a reward, Galactus creates a force field around the Earth which keeps the Surfer on Earth.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
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Over the ensuing years Lopez has seemed to gather a force field around her, as if weaponized against derisive scrutiny.
—Rob Haskell, Vogue, 8 Nov. 2022
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Maybe Lynch is protected by a magnetic force field created by Gatorade jugs.
—Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2018
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For all their industrial abstraction, not to mention enormous weight, even the largest works exude a humane force field.
—Dallas News, 27 Feb. 2023
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Perhaps he’s protected by an invisible force field.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
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That leaves Clooney and Roberts to do the heavy lifting on a script that might easily float away without their movie-star force field to hold it in place.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2022
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The magnitude of the force fields that surround open secrets—in this case, rampant harassment and abuse—should amaze everyone and no one.
—Habiba Alcindor, The Root, 14 Dec. 2017
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The only victims to escape swim through offshore coral, which somehow blocks the rocks' blackout-inflecting mental force field.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Feb. 2023
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In that film, his avatar, Sammy, is only beginning to understand how a camera can throw up a force field between him and the world.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2022
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His powers were drained keeping the force field and Justice Society out of the fray, despite their efforts to bust out.
—Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
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Brinkman says that though Musk’s charisma can create a temporary force field, the math always rules eventually.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2026
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