Synonyms

1. forbiddance
2. ban
3. banning

Sentence Examples

1. Clad in the customary deep green, the color of the sea at its most forbidding, every member of the House had crammed into the Council Hall.
2. But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
3. Clearly it was madness, just a trick of the forbidding light.
4. Chase gave her a look that barely contained the excitement bubbling inside him and rushed off to the kitchen, forbidding her to follow.
5. If on that forbidding moor a difficult and dangerous quest should lie before us, this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk with the certainty that he would bravely share it.
6. The old man looked at her with that stern and forbidding expression with which he was accustomed to receive her.
7. The tree line began again beyond easy reach of the settlers, a wall of forbidding green and brown that squatted and stared back at the invaders with grim malevolence.
8. A forbidding person appears to be awaiting challenge at the bottom.
9. There was a small islet of golden sand beneath my feet, a safe haven between the forbidding, storm-swept sea and jagged black rocks.