How to Use coercion in a Sentence

coercion

noun

• But there’s a sort of coercion in the screenplay all the same.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 13 Feb. 2021
• The girls are shook — first by the coercion in the tent, and then by the boy with cancer’s sister, who is ready to beat ass.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2021
• The coercion has gone, but the habit of women working in labs has remained.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• Even Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels, is calling out the coercion.
  — Megan Thiele Strong, New York Daily News, 7 July 2024
• Japan is hosting the G-7 summit this month, and at the top of its agenda is economic coercion.
  — The Editorial Board, wsj.com, 14 May 2023
• Take the Pressure Off Any kind of coercion to eat food is the parental behavior experts object to most.
  — Lydia Denworth, Parents, 3 Sep. 2024
• Real harm happened when the state used its powers of coercion in pursuit of this aim.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• When should guidance be replaced by the full power of state coercion?
  — Dan Hannan, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 June 2024
• He was charged with assault, coercion and rioting, all three of which are felonies.
  — Fox News, 23 Aug. 2020
• As we have again been horribly reminded, the use of force and coercion to this end does have a place in the 21st century.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 27 Feb. 2022
• It’s the coercion of the South Korean government, as the first step in trying to drive the United States off the peninsula.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Sep. 2020
• Officials found guilty of coercion are fined and fired.
  — The Economist, 17 Oct. 2019
• Buttigieg’s sales pitch was that his plan would yield all the gains of Medicare for All without the coercion, and thus with much less controversy.
  — Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• Lance Leipold wasn’t going to going to brag on that win without a little coercion.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 14 July 2022
• He was expected to return to court again on Sept. 21 and receive a sentence of 30 days in jail and five years of probation for the coercion charge.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Sep. 2022
• The bride and groom are often able to take the reins, so coercion is lower and efficacy, higher.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 27 Nov. 2019
• There are other warning signs that electoral coercion remains a threat in the U.S.
  — James Johnson, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2020
• And some of that coercion has been directed against our allies.
  — Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner, 8 Mar. 2021
• He's been charged with assault in the second degree, coercion, and riot.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2020
• Labor trafficking involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of work.
  — Allison Hatfield, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
• There are times when peer pressure does involve coercion and when kids will need refusal skills.
  — Phyllis Fagell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the right way of dealing with China.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Mar. 2025
• Two of the counts against Hernandez — coercion and enticement of a minor — carry a sentence of 10 years to life.
  — Crystal Hill, Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2020
• Faulkner urged patience and delay and spoke out against federal coercion of the white South.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2020
• Wiener’s bill doesn’t define the age of consent, but a child would have to agree to surgery, without coercion, after the physician has explained its purpose.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 8 Nov. 2019
• So that was an attempt essentially to use subterfuge and trickery and coercion to overthrow the will of the people.
  — NBC News, 19 June 2022
• The treaty was signed by the Lakota under coercion, which included threats of cannon fire and the withholding of food rations.
  — Hannah Fish, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2023
• Even forms of economic coercion are being put in place.
  — Ben Westcott and Eric Cheung, CNN, 15 Oct. 2021
• Now, smartphone threat intelligence experts have warned that users of both Android and iOS devices are doing one thing, without any need for malicious coercion, that makes their smartphones 250 times more likely to be compromised by hackers.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
• If users fail to meet repayment demands, the operators weaponize their information by harassing them, blackmailing them with threats of leaking private photos or contacting their friends and family, and creating a climate of fear and coercion.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2025