How to Use coerce in a Sentence

coerce

verb

• A confession was coerced from the suspect by police.
• Strong coerced them under the guise that the funny pictures were for the market blog, according to the news release.
  — oregonlive, 23 Nov. 2019
• The Spurs coerced James Harden to play more than four quarters Tuesday.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• The public is being coerced into a biased Google world view, rather than being able to judge content on its merits.
  — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2019
• The woman refused to get off the plane at first, but was eventually coerced by authorities and the pilot.
  — Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• Shepherd, Greenlee and Irvin were beaten to coerce confessions before they were convicted by an all-white jury.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• That victim feared that Foster and his associates were trying to coerce her into prostitution on a trip to Detroit.
  — Mario Ariza, sun-sentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019
• The suggestions complement another draft law, issued last month, to coerce owners to retire vehicles older than 15 years.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 18 Oct. 2019
• Day, who was acquitted of one killing but convicted of the other in 1994, has long alleged that Chicago police coerced his confession.
  — Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• The boys have said they were coerced by police to do so.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 18 June 2019
• No one is ever forced or coerced to see a show against their will.
  — Scott Galbraith, Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2024
• 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
• But the company has denied the charge that the Rs750 payment to volunteers was meant to coerce them.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 12 Jan. 2021
• 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
• Lydia’s ruffly red wedding dress from the original reappears on her in the sequel, as she’s once again coerced into marrying Keaton’s dastardly demon.
  — Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2024
• Sextortion is a type of scam where predators trick or coerce a person, typically a minor, into sending explicit images or videos of themselves, then threatening to release the material if the victim does not send more images or send money.
  — Lindsey Choo, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024