How to use forbid in a sentence

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• If, God forbid, there's a fire, head for the nearest exit.From the entry God forbid
• A: Do you think he'll win the election? B: God forbid!From the entry God forbid
• Many societies forbid marriage between parallel cousins, but encourage marriage between cross-cousins or second cross-cousins.From the entry cross-cousin
• In English, idiom requires the indefinite article in a phrase such as "she's an engineer", whereas in Spanish, idiom forbids it.From the entry idiom
• A new law forbids driving on that road.From the entry law
• The Bible forbids the worship of graven images.From the entry image
• Company policy forbids displaying cheesecake in the locker rooms.From the entry cheesecake
• The Synod of Aberdeen forbade 'chantings and choruses' at funerals.From the entry chanting
• Several popes forbade attendance at masses celebrated by incelibate clergy.From the entry incelibate
• Do you have it in you to show any respect, politeness, patience, or, God forbid, an ounce of forbearance?From the entry have it in one
• In fact, Henley actually forbids karaoke companies from rerecording songs in his catalog.2008 December 9, Brian Raftery, Don't Stop Believin': How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life, Cambridge: Da Capo Press…. From the entry karaoke
• Food and Drug Administration forbids the importation of raw-milk cheeses aged fewer than 60 days.1997 March 20, Tamara Browning, “First-rate fromage: Author on mission to inform public about ‘real’ cheese”, in The Times, Munster, Ind.…. From the entry fried-eggy
• Yet the idea of equality forbids, absolutely, this state providing social guarantees in a politically despotic manner.1992, Peter Murphy, “Socialism and Democracy”, in Peter Beilharz, Gillian Robinson, John [F.] Rundell, editors, Between Totalitarianism…. From the entry tutelary
• Heaven forbid that I conceive what the real thing is like.1989, Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact, page 214. From the entry pseudocollegiate
• They can’t walk ladylike, they can’t sit ladylike, and God forbid they should have to run!1980 April 21, Been There [pseudonym], “Dear Abby: Americans Want More Than Orientals Express”, in The Daily News Journal, 132nd year…. From the entry ladylike
• In France, the antidrug law forbids all forms of prodrug propaganda.1972, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security…. From the entry prodrug
• Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!1970, Monty Python, The Cheese Shop. From the entry terpsichorean
• I wondered whether I ought to speak to Brideshead, but that grim, rock-crystal mask forbade all confidence.1945, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 5, in Brideshead Revisited, Boston: Little, Brown, page 131. From the entry rock crystal
• He'd forbid me to send, for he's got his ship to clear from that port."1909, Arthur Stringer, “The Movement in Retreat”, in The Gun-runner, New York, N.Y.: B. W. Dodge & Company. From the entry fight shy
• And instead of bringing shame to it, we should be bringing compassion and—goddexx forbid!—some humor to our erotic lives.2021, Lucie Field, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, unnumbered page. From the entry goddexx
• Since then, the number of animal cafes has proliferated in Japan, where many people live in apartment buildings that forbid pets.2016 April 22, Richard Smart, “Japanese cat cafe closed down over neglect fears”, in The Guardian. From the entry cat café
• To the ditch-tenders, the beer- and breadmongers, the cushion furnishers, the envoy of ceremonies, and the countess herself, gods forbid.”2013, Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 500. From the entry breadmonger
• This would help lower my anxiety and make certain that I would not mishold, or God forbid, drop the precious package.2011, Neal L. Veldenax, Baby Boomer Female Names. From the entry mishold
• She had always wanted to try it, but Ma forbade it, and besides, oak stump water stunk sour.2004, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Hard Times for Jake Smith, Chapter VI. From the entry stump-water
• One who is under a ban of nidui or cherem (G-d forbid) cannot be counted towards a minyan.2003 April 30, R, “Who counts toward a Minyan?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet). From the entry niddui
• If you don't feel like cooking this Thanksgiving, that's no reason to go hamless, yamless and - heaven forbid - Spamless.2000 November 22, Cathy Gant Hill, “Let Others Cook On Turkey Day”, in News & Record. From the entry yamless
• Its all very well until we get a suspension or an injury (god forbid!) and then we're cattle trucked.1999 July 27, BiffdaBoy, “Re: Neither am I”, in alt.sports.soccer.arsenal (Usenet). From the entry cattle trucked
• There remained enough of the adolescent gawkling in Roy to forbid the parents to come watch him in the courtroom.1988, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn. From the entry gawkling
• To do this, a temporary variance was obtained in the city's building codes, which forbid demolishing of buildings by balling .1964, Construction Craftsman - Volumes 3-4, page 14. From the entry balling
• "Yes! and I forbid you to do it!1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 2. From the entry insolence
• Sizeism is hard to avoid on dating apps such as Grindr and Tinder, where users commonly forbid men under 6ft from contacting them.2019 June 21, Adrienne Matei, “In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity?”, in The Guardian. From the entry sizeism
• In August the generals won approval for the document in a referendum made farcical by a law which forbade campaigners from criticising the text.2017 January 14, “Thailand's new king rejects the army's proposed constitution”, in The Economist. From the entry farcical
• The Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution forbids excessive bail, and state bail laws are usually designed to prevent discrimination in setting bail.2009, George Cole with Christopher Smith, The American System of Criminal Justice, International Edition, page 338. From the entry bail
• Not long after the advent of Christianity, Pope Gregory III forbade hippophagy because of its association with the worship of pagan gods.2000, Tamra Andrews, Nectar & Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology. From the entry hippophagy
• However, this incident, along with the fact that many Christian seminaries forbid students to have beards, got me interested in the subject of Christian misopogons—beard-haters.1993, Daniel Botkin, “A Bewhiskered Believer: Bewildered By Beard-Bearing Brethren.”, in The Messianic Outreach, volume 12, number 3…. From the entry misopogon
• “God forbid that he should have to pay a honey-dipper to come out and clean up the septic systems” on the site.1991 November 11, Kelly Gilbert, “Marina, manager convicted on pollution charges”, in The Evening Sun, volume 164, number 17, Baltimore…. From the entry honey-dipper

Meaning of forbid

1. verb To disallow; to proscribe.
2. verb To deny, exclude from, or warn off, by express command.
3. verb To oppose, hinder, or prevent, as if by an effectual command.

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Questions about forbid in a sentence

How do you use forbid in a sentence?

Forbid is used as a verb. For example: “Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.”

What is a short sentence with forbid?

“Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.”

What does forbid mean?

Forbid means to disallow; to proscribe.