Forbid

//fɚˈbɪd//

"Forbid" in a Sentence (19 examples)

I forbid you to smoke.

I forbid smoking in my room.

I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

God forbid!

I forbid you to leave.

His ex-wife obtained a court order that forbid him from coming closer than 200 yards.

I forbid you to smoke!

Heaven forbid! That would be disastrous.

Once and for all, I forbid it.

Among so many actions committed by dictators, we can mention that: they suspend political activity, they suspend the rights of workers, they forbid strikes, they destroy the Supreme Court of Justice, they shutdown nighttime places of business, they censor the mass media, they burn thousands of books and magazines considered dangerous.

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Smoking in the restaurant is forbidden.

[…] the Mole recollected that animal-etiquette forbade any sort of comment on the sudden disappearance of one's friends at any moment, for any reason or no reason whatever.

Solon also forbade the export of corn and other agricultural products, with the single exception of olive oil, of which Athens had a surplus.

Have I not forbid her my house?

An impassable river forbids the approach of the army.

a blaze of glory that forbids the sight

He shall live a man forbid.

What part of "no" do you forbid to understand?

So there is a resemblance between the partie that here gives licence to come to the tree of life, and the other that forbid to come to it. The one threatned with a sword; the other promiseth to the persons that keep the condition here expressed

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