Sentence examples for forcing it open from inspiring English sources

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.

Small distribution transformers may achieve some of the benefits of a toroidal core by splitting it and forcing it open, then inserting a bobbin containing primary and secondary windings.

Applying such forces directly to the channel itself or via membrane deformation can disrupt the normal function of the channel, potentially forcing it open in response to the applied force [13].

You put pressure on your opponent's hand, forcing it open and making it more difficult for him to use his muscles.[7] Get your elbows close together.

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.

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

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

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

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