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
• 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
• 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
• Whether through coercion or diplomatic carrots, Biden knows the US may simply lack the leverage to change Putin's zero-sum game.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 June 2021
• Anything less than this is coercion, and coerced consent is no consent at all.
  — WIRED, 10 Aug. 2023
• Labor trafficking forces someone to work against their will through force, fraud or coercion.
  — Kendall Larson, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
• These, puppet masters could win an Emmy Award through deceit and coercion to further their own goals at the expense of others.
  — Jason Walker, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025