How to Use forbidden in a Sentence

forbidden

adjective
  • In the forbidden world (of music) there was no judgment.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • To everyone else, the land beyond this road, forbidden or not, looked good.
    — Longreads, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Most houses don’t travel at all, let alone in the forbidden direction on a one-way street.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The best places to hunt for forbidden titles were other people’s bookshelves, but this one was hard to find even there.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Two British tourists were also spotted walking on the forbidden trail.
    — Livia Borghese and Sana Noor Haq, CNN, 12 July 2022
  • The two then kneel head-to-head, throwing each other’s arms and torsos to and fro in a sort of tragic and forbidden love.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • In the birth chart, Black Moon Lilith reveals our forbidden and taboo desires.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Something else to consider is the part of the Internet that is the forbidden zone.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Stir in hormones and a love both first and forbidden, and that journey of self-definition becomes an urgent one.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2021
  • These range from the pages being discolored by demonic forces, or that the pages once contained forbidden texts, now removed.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Lina, a young woman facing harsh coming-of-age rituals, forms a forbidden connection with a man.
    — Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
  • And thank God for that, because forbidden love is my favorite type of drama to watch on Love Island.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • But users have long played a cat-and-mouse game to try to trick language models into providing forbidden information.
    — Peter Hall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Of course, Samay is attracted to the forbidden, and starts to cut classes to go to the Galaxy cinema.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Women, whether secular or religious, remain forbidden to read, write or tell stories.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The forbidden rice added a nice nuttiness and some extra heft, and juicy mandarin sections provided lovely pops of fruity sweetness.
    — Lizzy Briskin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In Flensburg, 'Jews forbidden' is hanging in the shop window again – in the year 2025.
    — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Waiting was something forbidden.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • As Venus and Uranus harmonize, permit yourself to indulge a forbidden desire.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 15 June 2026
  • Travel to and from the United States and United Kingdom remains forbidden.
    — Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Overnight, work grounded in community wisdom is now assumed unrealistic or forbidden.
    — Rachel Bergmans, Time, 18 Nov. 2025
  • With every temptation, Jesus is lured into a forbidden world, and a terrified Joseph soon realizes that a demonic power is at work.
    — Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Oct. 2025
  • More recently, mathematicians have been able to adapt Erdős’ method to get better estimates of Ramsey numbers where the forbidden cliques differ vastly in size.
    — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • Less than an hour’s drive from the holiday markets, on the way to Salla and its forbidden frontier, hundreds of Finnish soldiers are training to repel any future Russian invasion.
    — Liam Denning, Bloomberg, 12 Mar. 2026
  • In a discussion that Padilla started about a secret Groundlings show for gross-out comedy, Palmer summoned the ancient name of one of the forbidden Millennial texts.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 29 May 2026
  • The forbidden readings came from Plato, the Athenian philosopher whose work is widely regarded as an important basis for Western thought over more than two millennia.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Gwendolyn has stoically walled herself off from true romance while Fonsi has anxiously stumbled from one erotic situation to the next, even having (forbidden) carnal relations with a spirit.
    — Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
  • Obsession, a Toronto premiere that has since turned into one of the year’s unlikeliest box-office successes with rare, late-run weekend gains, traces how forbidden desire spirals into supernatural terror.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • At the core, as has been noted after the release of the teaser a couple months ago, is the steamy, forbidden relationship between Catherine Earnshaw (Robbie) and Heathcliff (Elordi).
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
  • One of Japan’s most beloved television personalities — and a perennial favorite-host winner — Matsuko brings her sharp insight and commanding presence to a forbidden auction staged in a mysterious underground space.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026

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