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    Use "forbidding" in a sentence

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    forbidding


    1. For a brief moment I thought that we were all saved, that government forces had smashed into the apartment and would, in a few seconds, lead us hostages out through tear gas and back into the wintery sun of cold and forbidding England


    2. He cocked his head, listening for the tell tale whistle of slipstream and the dark, forbidding rumble of eighteen inch rims, and then smiled


    3. The warehouse in question formed part of a complex of buildings set inside a forbidding stone wall a considerable amount taller than Kara; she presented herself at the gatehouse, offering the authority Berndt had supplied


    4. I was alone, all except for one sun-worshipper and a polite little sign on a wall at the beach that told me, The Nudism Is Forbidding


    5. You should not take that passage as forbidding you to make love to your wife


    6. You see I don't take that passage as forbidding me, but more like it is excusing me


    7. forbidding exteriors and enter the old part of town that


    8. trudged beneath the forbidding walls of yet another


    9. a forbidding aspect as it lay brooding beneath the rough


    10. The king had been furious, forbidding her ever to come into his presence again, or set foot in the palace

    11. Before him the mock-Roman pillars, grandiose and slightly forbidding


    12. The look was so forbidding I couldn"t have touched him even had I wished


    13. As I glanced at the storm I wondered, since the sand was so white, why did this spiraling phenomena appear so inky? I looked back as the forbidding storm moved nearer


    14. I didn’t blame him a bit for she was a very forbidding woman but I could sense underneath that she was also warm and caring


    15. passed the splendid, forbidding houses on the avenue, in the green that


    16. Black workers from the Limon fields were prevented from following their jobs by a racial protection law forbidding them to enter the interior of the country, leaving thousands unemployed


    17. He was FORBIDDING her to go on a date with someone? As they approached the elevator, several people turned to look, thinking they made a handsome couple


    18. the forbidding mathematics that has become the language of science


    19. She had a rather stern, forbidding look, but she was in reality very jolly, with a hearty, gurgling laugh and a deep, mellow, pleasant voice with a suggestion of masculinity about it


    20. Michpili was a grizzled, old veteran who had kept to himself during the trip here and whose forbidding aspect caused the rest of us to give him wide berth

    21. Ÿ Regulations forbidding witches and mediums


    22. Outside the gates there was a forbidding calm


    23. He didn’t dare speak to the forbidding An Huang


    24. 4, 5 The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and the elect ones, who hang onto the Lord of Spirits; And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the Earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits; And I heard the fourth voice fending off the satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse those who dwell on the Earth


    25. This violated civil and criminal statutes forbidding retired regular navy officers (Erb had been a CAPT and tin can commander) from selling to SEA 02 for at least two years following their retirement


    26. Esparza was a chronic problem because of not obeying rules forbidding entering into "informal commitments


    27. 4 5 The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits forever and ever; And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and the elect ones who hang onto the Lord of Spirits; And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the Earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits; And I heard the fourth voice fending off the satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse those who dwell on the Earth


    28. In both cases, the reasons for requiring certain social behaviors and forbidding others will have to be explained on the basis of a theory that is far more intellectually respectable than the real reason for the rules


    29. Yes, laws regarding animals and their care and forbidding animal


    30. I had saved his life in the war of the segregation in his distant youth, and after a long life as a simple farmer, he chose a place with a beautiful view atop a peak deep in a remote and forbidding range to build his tribute out of personal gratitude

    31. No horse can come over that hill, and the hills to the south are just as forbidding, as we saw when we came through them on our way here


    32. As the sun began to set, and the great rocks to take on a more forbidding aspect, the boy’s small fingers slipped into Simon’s and clung to him as they walked


    33. can come over that hill, and the hills to the south are just as forbidding, as we saw when we


    34. And he had a very sour look so that I was afraid of him so forbidding was his aspect


    35. She made him say it before every meal despite Aaron’s forbidding any forms of religious expression in their home


    36. “I remind you that this is one of the most isolated and private locations on this world! Those dragons up there are the only people within hundreds of miles of forbidding territory, and they could not care less what two humanoids do in this regard, even if they were willing to tear their attentions away from their project, which they would not!


    37. He hesitated, and she prompted him in a rather forbidding tone


    38. 2 By the beginning of this year Jesus had fully won his mother to the acceptance of his methods of child training -- the positive injunction to do good in the place of the older Jewish method of forbidding to do evil


    39. He refrained from placing emphasis on evil by forbidding it, while he exalted the good by commanding its performance


    40. He came from a race of hillmen, accustomed to scaling forbidding crags, and he was a man of unusual strength and agility

    41. But before the soldiers could come to the defense of the high priest's servant, Jesus raised a forbidding hand to Peter and, speaking sternly, said: "Peter, put up your sword


    42. boat, and into the darkness of a forbidding forest


    43. In 1991, the Government of Korea passed a law forbidding


    44. Although forbidding to most newcomers, the program


    45. issued a memo forbidding all staff to stand anywhere near him, or wherever the


    46. forbidding him to reap his harvest


    47. Al’lah, the Almighty, is Great in His Compassion and Love for this man, and His ordering or forbidding aims but the absolute goodness for this man beloved and honored at Him


    48. * A man may ask: you have perfectly explained the reason of forbidding the meat of strangled animals and those beaten to death, the meat of swine and the carcass over which the Name of Al’lah had not been pronounced


    49. So, if the matter had been as mentioned in the claim, the verses would not have been stated in such a form and God would have ordered us to pronounce the Name of Al’lah over what we eat, consequently, there would be no need for this forbidding


    50. But the forbidding proclamation was even to extend









































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    Synonyms for "forbidding"

    ban banning forbiddance forbidding baleful menacing minacious minatory ominous sinister threatening dour grim

    "forbidding" definitions

    an official prohibition or edict against something


    harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance


    threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments