Explore Coerce through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like hale or squeeze. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Coerce meaning
- To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb.
- To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will.
- To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
Using Coerce
- The main meaning on this page is: To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. | To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. | To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
- Useful related words include: hale, squeeze, pressure, force.
- In the example corpus, coerce often appears in combinations such as: to coerce, coerce the, or coerce.
Context around Coerce
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Coerce
- In this selection, "coerce" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, girls, two, someone and customers stand out and add context to how "coerce" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ability to coerce and manipulate and address to coerce payments using. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "coerce" sits close to words such as accumulates, admiralty and adventurers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with coerce
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Be respectful, don’t pressure or coerce. (7 words)
The criminals typically contact you through your email address to coerce payments using intimidation and threats of embarrassment. (18 words)
The state of Israel is trying to punish the Palestinians and coerce them into changing their minds by sanctions. (19 words)
The US online retailer said their workers "always have" the choice to join a union however GMB filed legal proceedings in April against the firm, claiming they were "engaged in widespread attempts to coerce staff to cancel their trade union membership". (41 words)
The brothels' alleged operators -- Han Lee, 41, and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Massachusetts and James Lee, 68, of California -- were arrested and charged with conspiring to coerce and entice women to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity. (38 words)
He has been made an outcast by the bullies in the administration and teaching staff who have unconstitutionally attempted to coerce him into believing he’s a racist for wearing our nation’s most beloved Revolutionary symbol. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
After allowing them into his home, the girls coerce him into having sex, and it's here that the horror elements of start coming into play.
Be respectful, don’t pressure or coerce.
He has been made an outcast by the bullies in the administration and teaching staff who have unconstitutionally attempted to coerce him into believing he’s a racist for wearing our nation’s most beloved Revolutionary symbol.
However, Ashoka University claimed it did not coerce two managers and one professor to leave the university for signing a Kashmir petition along with 85 students.
However, in season 2, Nick's father and brother join the mix, and she will have to coerce the other members of their family to accept Nick's relationship and happiness therein.
Instead, it is believed that the biggest challenge facing AI developers is the technology’s ability to coerce and manipulate users to behave destructively.
Perhaps the Borg Queen learned her lesson from Star Trek: First Contact, and chose to ally with other enemies of the Federation rather than try to coerce someone to switch sides.
The brothels' alleged operators -- Han Lee, 41, and Junmyung Lee, 30, of Massachusetts and James Lee, 68, of California -- were arrested and charged with conspiring to coerce and entice women to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity.
The drive to coerce a certain kind of conduct or performance is of a similar piece to that of silencing objectionable words and cancelling those who utter them.
The state of Israel is trying to punish the Palestinians and coerce them into changing their minds by sanctions.
To coerce a player off a roster, whether you do it through a third person, whether you do it through an agent, a collective – no matter how you do it — it’s cheating.
But it was Goldcar that remained the worst-rated by customers and the company continue to employ 'pushy sales tactics', attempting to coerce customers into purchasing 'extra insurance'.
He is now being investigated by a Spanish court on accusations by Hermoso of sexual assault and for having attempted to coerce her into publicly supporting him after the kiss.
He purportedly attempted to coerce the company directors into signing documents under duress at House No. 39, Lufubu Road, Kalundu, Lusaka.
I thought they were both so good in it that I’m gonna do everything I can to coerce her into coming back to the show.
Jones also alleges that Combs used cash and financial support provided to him by Grainge and UMG to coerce him and others into commercial sex acts, breaking the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Noble Lords are entitled to express an opinion, just not to coerce somebody else into agreeing with them and changing their behaviour as a result.
The costumes represent not just attire but the symbolism of absolute power wielded by white men without consequence — power used to coerce, oppress, victimise, and humiliate, enforcing compliance with certain values and norms.
The criminals typically contact you through your email address to coerce payments using intimidation and threats of embarrassment.
The US online retailer said their workers "always have" the choice to join a union however GMB filed legal proceedings in April against the firm, claiming they were "engaged in widespread attempts to coerce staff to cancel their trade union membership".
Common combinations with coerce
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to coerce 56×
- coerce the 12×
- or coerce 7×
- coerce them 6×
- coerce her 6×
- coerce him 5×
- and coerce 5×
- not coerce 4×
- coerce its 3×
- coerce others 3×