Strained, unnatural

Usage examples of forced.

Jamie had forced me to take almost all the moneynot a great deal, but there was a small weight of coin at the bottom of each of the pockets tied around my waist, and a couple of proclamation notes tucked inside my stays.

Vrej was posed insouciantly on a new foremast, and explained the delay by informing them that Acapulco was that rarest of places, an important trade-port without a single Armenian, and so he had been forced to deal with slower minds.

As it was, she and Adams had ten days of forced seclusion in which to ponder such concerns, starting almost the moment Adams arrived at Quincy on the evening of March 18, 1801.

By violence you have forced your way to me, Adana, of the Older Race who fed your forefathers with the fruit of our wisdom.

Not deliberately, at any rate, and in this company the likelihood of lice was slight compared to the sort of places in which poverty had forced Adele to eat and sleep for many years.

Even the later school of the Adoptians in Rome, and the later Adoptians in general, were forced to assume a divine hypostasis beside the Godhead, which of course sensibly threatened their Christology.

Fortunately Agata has succeeded in saving her from being forced to marry at twelve as her husband wanted.

But as his health deteriorated, Smith was forced to fight another battle with the State Department for wheelchair access to SA-10, the building in Foggy Bottom where the DSS agents were based.

Grabbing ahold of the back of his hair, she kept his head firmly in place and jammed the breathing regulator into his mouth, He was forced to breathe.

West Point class reunion in 1939, Albright was forced to admit that Adamson had indeed found a faster route to military advancement than he had.

He forced himself to study the maneuvers of the attackers, occasionally commenting to Sallustius on the discipline and arrangement of the Alemanni forces.

All that was left of old Algiers tried to boast, in forced dumbness, of past glories, of every charm the beautiful, fierce city of pirates must have possessed before the French came to push it slowly but with deadly sureness back from the sea.

That was standard procedure on Alii Drive in winter storms: first sirens, then roadblocks and panic, and finally forced evacuation of all beachfront homes by Civil Defense rescue teams.

But then Captain Alima had come with his Star Destroyer and forced Nadon to reveal the secrets of Ithorian technology to the Empire.

She forced herself to stillness as he slit the dress all the way to the hem and pulled the rags away from her.