How to use "force" in a sentence

Its force knocked me right out of the ship into the dark cold ocean.

Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

"Resolved: that the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any State or Territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes."

The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere

Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be so great and universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.

If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written Constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution - certainly would if such a right were a vital one

She! Everyone who has ever loved will feel the force of that small word

I'm kidnapping you - by force, if necessary!'

Has he broken a window? Or entered the property by force?"

What's more, there was a force field at the city boundary that was impossible to cross: there were alarms there that sensed your wrist chip before you even got close, and then government agents appeared in seconds to arrest you

If the government finds out that messages are getting through the force field and passing across the city boundary, there could be big trouble."

We're all going to fly over the force field and live happily ever after in a forest where the trees grow gold-covered fruit."

"So, was that note really from Gran's brother? Are people alive out there - outside the city? How did you get the note across the force field?" She had so many questions.

We're working on creating breaks in the force field, and blocking the wrist chips, too."

We're working on the force field

They're trying to break down the force field and maybe help some people escape."

The force field is real

She tried to imagine a future with no wrist chips and no force field

They've discovered that the contamination is all a lie and they're trying to find ways through the force field!"

"Well, Gran," said Sala, "maybe one day, when Cham comes out of the pod, and they've managed to break through the force field, we really will be able to go together

The closet door slammed open and shut with substantially more force than it had earlier.

And they wouldn't have wasted so much time coaxing him to cooperate; they would have used force without hesitation

Even if the government had established a secret police force, however, why was it so anxious to cover up the true facts of Danny's death? What were they trying to hide about the Sierra tragedy? What really had happened up in those mountains?

Crazily, Tina felt as if her nightmare had not come from within her, but from without, as if some person or force had projected the dream into her mind in an effort to-

Rule out all of this nonsense about the dream having been sent by some outside force

He was safe, close behind her, knocked off balance by the force of the shock wave, staggering forward, but unhurt.

If you're looking for a freelance hit man, someone who deals in carload lots of illegal weapons, maybe a mercenary who can put together a small expeditionary force for an overseas operation - you can find all of them here

The two words blasted out of the speakers in all corners of the diner with such incredible, bone-jarring force that it was difficult to believe that the machine had been built with the capability of pouring out sound with this excessive, unnerving power.

"This secret police force, these people behind Kennebeck..

When Kennebeck informed Alexander of Elliot Stryker's request for an exhumation, the bureau chief responded immediately with extreme force

Now George Alexander was the Nevada bureau chief of the nation's first truly secret police force - a fact that apparently did not weigh heavily on his liberal conscience.

But it had seemed absurd and shortsighted of the director to force a man of Alexander's position to travel by such relatively primitive means

With that title, he would be one of the most powerful men in the United States, more of a force to be reckoned with than any mere Secretary of State or Secretary of Defense could hope to be.

A particularly fierce blast of wind drove snow into the windscreen with such force that, to Kurt Hensen, it sounded like shotgun pellets.

She turned her head round with such force that I heard the bones crack in her neck

On the surface of the Earth the force of gravity is three times as great as on the surface of Mars

If you force your way into that cottage, our marriage is finished."

'We must bring them to justice! We must give Laura back her true identity! Mr Kyrle says we can't prove that she is Lady Glyde, so we must force one of them to confess it

Then I can use the secret to force Sir Percival to tell the truth about Laura.'