How to Use force-feed in a Sentence

force-feed

verb
  • The Heat force-fed him the ball.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Women who mounted hunger strikes in protest were force-fed, a painful procedure.
    — Barbara Spindel, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The case alleges that Doe’s caretakers force-fed her in the days leading up to the visit.
    — Jane Borden, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The New York Knicks force-fed their scorers all the way down to the last possession.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Having drunk excessive amounts of water to conceal her anorexia, she was hospitalized and force-fed.
    — Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
  • Made from the fatty liver of a duck or goose, most foie gras production faces accusations of force-feeding the animals.
    — Meredith Kile, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Kyle Shanahan doesn’t force-feed his WR1, but targets are wide open in San Francisco.
    — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Kyle Shanahan doesn’t force-feed his WR1, but targets are wide open in San Francisco.
    — Jake Ciely, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The evil entertainer has yet to force-feed or directly torture any of his unwitting audience members with excrement.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Not only did nearly half of his points come from the free-throw line (a league-record 36), but there was an extreme effort to force-feed him through double- and triple-teams late when the game was well in hand.
    — Sam Amick, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The Heat are not the only team to have force-fed the ball to a player late in a game to boost his point totals; Chamberlain’s record game unfolded similarly.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Authorities were provided photos showing the baby with a tape over her mouth and a video of the mom allegedly force-feeding the baby, the arrest report alleges.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Rashee Rice is back The Chiefs were determined to get Rashee Rice into the end zone, force-feeding him inside the 5-yard line.
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Oct. 2025
  • My identifying Nvidia at $2 a share and almost force-feeding it to Club members — many of them now Nvidia millionaires — gives me a clearer head than most about the chipmaker’s fundamentals.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Many have recently used that authority to force-feed DEI courses while deemphasizing basic economic and civic literacy.
    — Kevin Wallsten, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2020
  • And later, accusations of sexism flew and one participant quietly admitted to attempting the ordeal (which routinely involves force-feeding challenges) as a vegan.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The United States, which can gobble up Olympic medals and force-feed its brand of football to a happy audience across the pond, has had to cede superiority to the rest of the world, unable to even get its own term for the game to catch on.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 June 2026
  • Starkly depicting such abuses as force-feeding, strip-searching, and staff bullying, the movie appalled audiences on its release, and the State of Massachusetts quickly banned it from being shown publicly for more than twenty years.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 17 Feb. 2026
  • And before the perpetually whiny and moronic peanut gallery says that sports teams have special nights all the time, that’s true, but celebrating heritage, or veterans who fought and died for this country is just an eency weency bit different than force-feeding the gay agenda at a ball game!
    — Tomi Lahren Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 June 2026
  • In 2014, the Navy threatened to court-martial one of its nurses at Guantánamo who refused to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, who were protesting inhumane treatment and indefinite detention.
    — Amy Maxmen, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • In previous livestreams, Graven was beaten, strangled, force-fed and peppered with paintballs, according to publications including the Telegraph and CNN that reviewed the content.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • When so much of the online algorithm force-feeds division, the World Cup has presented a new, uplifting form of viral content; unifying, cross-cultural, a reminder, should it be required, that most people actually like one another.
    — Adam Crafton, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • With Green draped all over him, spearheading the Warriors’ blitzing defensive attack, Leonard was held scoreless for the first 11 minutes and 43 seconds of the fourth quarter, even as the Clippers force-fed him the ball down the stretch.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The Longhorns were the first team this season to take advantage of Vandy’s lack of size — the Commodores are the SEC’s smallest team — force-feeding the ball into 7-footer Matas Vokietaitis, who scored 22 points on 7 of 9 shooting.
    — Cj Moore, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026

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