Sentence examples for force it open from inspiring English sources

If the bird still won't open its mouth, gently force it open.

The event remains one of the most powerful symbols of what China considers its humiliation when Western nations tried to force it open in the 19th century.

Kaufmann, worried that she was not answering repeated knocks at her door, ordered the servants to force it open.

The door had been prised ajar and now it needed someone to force it open, one of Ponting's seamers.

A passerby saw him – and the taxi driver – trying to force it open and called the police.

The key to the apartment worked the way it always had, but something was blocking the door, and he had to force it open.

"If it prevents Palestinian civilians from crossing and confronts them with force, it opens itself up to unlimited public scrutiny at home.

"When this law came into force, it opened a door of hate and legalized prejudice," Alimi told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

They could not get inside because the door was jammed, so they forced it open, they said.

He pulled hard on the restaurant door, forcing it open, and stumbled with his tattered flowers into the dark realm between the door and the velvet drapes that had been hung to keep the cold from sweeping in over diners at the front of the room.

Torchwood has been conducting experiments on the breach, forcing it open in an attempt to harness it as a source of energy.