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
• All’s well that ends well, except for the final scene when OA had to face one of the teens that Joseph coerced.
  — Megan Stein, Country Living, 25 Sep. 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
• The toolkit that China has to use to coerce Taiwan is huge.
  — CBS News, 23 Feb. 2022
• 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
• There’s no way to read The Woman in Me and not see that Britney was coerced at every stage.
  — Vulture, 23 Oct. 2023
• 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
• There was an edge to playing a second time, because we’d been coerced.
  — Rob Tannenbaum, Billboard, 26 May 2017
• 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
• The jurors disagreed on whether the confession could have been coerced.
  — CBS News, 15 Apr. 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
• Across a vast array of circumstances, a State will be able to impose its moral choice on a woman and coerce her to give birth to a child.
  — Sofia Lotto Persio, Quartz, 24 June 2022
• In each of the videos, Kim prods and pokes, trying to coerce each sister into flattering words about her weight.
  — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 3 Aug. 2018
• Lawyers for Dassey have argued all along that the confession was coerced and therefore false.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2019
• Instead of throwing the fight for the mob, Hosseini is coerced to declare forfeit for the glory of Iran.
  — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Oct. 2023
• Toward the end of the first half, Jalen Wilson, a Jayhawk forward, missed two layups, but got his own rebound each time and was able to coerce the ball through the hoop.
  — New York Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Alley confessed to the crime, but later said the confession was coerced.
  — Travis Loller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2019
• This is a blatant attempt to coerce the players to agree to the owners positions.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Weeks later Putin sought to coerce Ukraine back into the Russian orbit.
  — Michael A. Cohen, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
• Both soon recanted, saying they were coerced, but to no avail.
  — Joseph Neff, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2018
• No dollar figure could coerce Luongo to don the pads again.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
• Cameron was coerced to come back, serving as a producer and helping break the story.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2019
• The list is meant to coerce these countries into improving.
  — Satoshi Sugiyama, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• But critics and his lawyers claim he was coerced into a false confession.
  — CBS News, 2 Oct. 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
• Defendant Elfman then coerced Plaintiff to take her clothing off and stand naked with him in front of the open windows in full view of the public.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• Welsh and her husband, Robert, spent Thursday evening looking out their window across the street as police tried to coerce David Linthicum out of that same home.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 10 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024