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Example sentences for "being forced"

  • Other American vessels put in here, and surely we can work our way home without being forced to serve on board a whaler.

  • It is not fair that we should miss all the most exciting portion of the work by being forced to remain aboard the Essex when there are prizes to be captured.

  • But that is no reason why the sugar manufacturer, whose production costs are high, should suffer, even to the extent of being forced out of the market.

  • Damage caused to civilians by being forced by Germany or her allies to labor without just remuneration.

  • So great was the dread of the Louisianans of being forced to bow to Spanish rule, that they spoke seriously of burning New Orleans rather than giving it up to the hated foreign authorities.

  • The people, resentful of being forced to submit to foreign rule, received him coldly and sullenly.

  • The sorrow at being forced to give up el Morro was great.

  • After Hood's defeat at Nashville he retreated, closely pursued by cavalry and infantry, to the Tennessee River, being forced to abandon many pieces of artillery and most of his transportation.

  • During the 20th we simply held our ground and started our trains back to Kinston for provisions, which would be needed in the event of being forced to fight a general battle at Bentonsville.

  • Walked home; being forced thereto by one of my watermen falling sick yesterday, and it was God's great mercy I did not go by water with them yesterday, for he fell sick on Saturday night, and it is to be feared of the plague.

  • My Lady told me how my Lady Castlemaine do speak of going to lie at Hampton Court; which she and all our ladies are much troubled at, because of the King's being forced to show her countenance in the sight of the Queene when she comes.

  • I was much troubled, for fear of being forced to pay the money myself.

  • As to myself I am very well, only in fear of the plague, and as much of an ague by being forced to go early and late to Woolwich, and my family to lie their continually.

  • As to myself I am very well, only in fear of the plague, and as much of an ague by being forced to go early and late to Woolwich, and my family to lie there continually.

  • He gone I home to dinner, find the girle yet better, so no fear of being forced to send her out of doors as we intended.

  • To my accounts and settled them clear; but to my grief find myself poorer than I was the last by near L20, by reason of my being forced to return L50 to Downing, the smith, which he had presented me with.

  • And Metellus, being forced shamefully to raise the siege, withdrew amidst the laughter and contempt of the Spaniards; while Sertorius became yet more the object of their esteem and admiration.

  • In addition to being forced back, the British suffered a large loss of men, especially officers.

  • This summer I learned more about the work than I thought there was to know before I began, and as each expert I meet tells me something new, I am being forced to the conclusion that as yet I haven't got rightly started.

  • If old Ontario is being forced by changed conditions to let her fields run to pasture, she has fat steers to show for it that equal the best.

  • And this discovery I was yearning more and more to declare to them; being forced to see (even in the midst of all our warlike troubles) that a certain difference was growing betwixt them both, and betwixt them and me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being affected; being buried; being capable; being captured; being carried; being delivered; being deprived; being destroyed; being expressed; being given; being informed; being like; being near; being necessary; being permitted; being possessed; being presented; being produced; being rather; being right; being willing; being wounded; congressional action; dispensing power; historic interest; parable unto