He was a little frightened at his own boldness, but he had made up his mind exactly what words to use, and, though his heart beat violently, he forced himself to say them.
He forced himselfto sit the play out, but he did not know whether he was more bored or nauseated.
He forced himself to stand up and pace the room while she lounged back on her bed, her head propped up on her elbow, watching him with that delicious smile of hers.
He forced himself to watch as the cage moved slowly into the piazza and the executioners tore again and again at the victim's body with their red-hot pincers.
But Nicetas shook his head and forced himself to his feet.
The tables of figures printed there were blurred at first to his eyes, but he forced himself to forget the threat that was past, for there was another menace to consider now.
Chet tore his fascinated eyes from the revolting features of that purple face; he forced himself to look beyond at what else might be on this sacrificial stone.
These he heard, and nothing more, while he forced himself to listen beyond them.
Allan himself felt hardly the strength to remain upright; but he forced himself to stand there, and with a tremendous effort held the glass true as it slowly scoured the sky-line to north and west.
He sat down beside the bed and forced himself to think.
Yet he forced himself still to look and to observe, unseen.
He forced himself again to answer their anxious inquiries, to note their little airs of manliness and self-reliance, to see with growing wonder that they were well dressed and wore spotless linen.
He forced himself to retreat from the machine, which was coming at him now with a broad, gleaming hatchet.
His arm was stiffening rapidly, but he forced himself to press the trigger.
He forced himself to see beyond the machine, to see the patient droning lessons of the classroom which had created this monster in his mind.
He forced himself at last to finish the magazine, and from the steamer library he culled several volumes of poetry.
His shoulders stuck, and heforced himself back so as to try it with one arm down by his side.
It was with difficulty--with a feeling that he was falling from high heaven to earth--that he forced himself to listen to her next words.
For the first time, also, heforced himself to face the knowledge that any hour might bring as unexpected a development as had been the prolonged presence of Pargeter in Paris.
He forced himself to be calm: he still had reason for hope.
Although he was a slow walker and his school was at the other end of Paris, he forced himself to take the long walk home, not so much from affection, as from habit, and for the sake of economy.
As a matter of politeness he forced himself to speak to her: he labored to find subjects of conversation: she never gave him the smallest assistance.
After this he forced himself to suppress all sign of the unrest which possessed him, but he could scarcely bear his part well in the conversation around the tea-table.
The wild, gay life that he led filled him with disgust, he forced himself to seem carelessly merry when he was constantly a prey to mortal ennui.
He forced himself to breathe slowly and pretend that he was hidden in shrubbery with a bow and arrow, watching for a deer.
He forced himselfto stop thinking about the family he'd made without wanting to and then had lost.
He forced himself to look anywhere but at Auguste, knowing that what he felt would be all too easy for the others to read.
By a considerable effort of self-control he forced himself to remain silent, and to make himself distinguish what part of his pain was due to vanity, what part to the certainty that no woman really loving him could speak thus.
She saw the effort with which he spoke Katharine's name, and believed that he forced himselfto make amends now for his concealment in the past.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forced himself" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
