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How to use compels in a sentence

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He went on to challenge the Kansas scheme, arguing that it compels him to incriminate himself in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
On whims, I have gone down to the bike path along the creek camera in hand, snapping away as mood and light compels me to.
Nearly all of his songs have an irresistible rhythm that just compels you to start moving.
The rule compels the writer to receive criticism in a workshop without responding.
This environment, much like the set-up of a small business, compels the counselor to take initiative and become a self-starter.
She feels immeasurably lost, a feeling which compels her to think of self-annihilation.
Having a privatization agency compels you, or those who run the institution, to privatize because that is their business.
It glistens with a thick varnish-like finish that compels opening, parting at the center like a medieval church's baptistry doors.
I felt that it might lead me to understand why photography as an art form compels my interest.
The key to Graham's success is the way in which he compels and gratifies, but never fully reveals or satiates.
He develops his slumbering powers and compels them to act in obedience to his sway.
In other words, Star Trek is using retcons as a means to construct the future history that both fascinates and compels the more serious fans.
It compels us to review goals set against achievements attained and lapses experienced.
It compels the sharing of that amount between the owner of copyright in the artistic work and the owner of copyright in the literary work.
The relocation operation relies on the birds' excellent natural homing instinct, which compels them to return to the site where they hatched.
Boy meets girl, falls in love but fate intervenes cruelly and compels them to part ways.
The condition, known to consume women in the late stages of pregnancy, compels heavily pregnant women to cook and clean up a storm.
Second, compassion for gross suffering compels us to continue investigating genetic therapy for dread diseases.
In her paintings she can seem witchlike, devoted to dark causes, even as she compels admiration for her translucent flesh and riveting gaze.
The evolutionary wiring in his brain compels him to do just that, just as gravity compels a raindrop to fall.
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Examples from Classical Literature
A Russian imbues his polite things with a heartiness, both of phrase and expression, that compels belief in their sincerity.
There is no statute which compels a man to take an estate against his will.
As for the ironweed, it clothes the pastures with a royal purple, so rich a hue it compels the eye, and is a kind of stimulant.
This step is taken when the State compels the parties to enter into an agreement on the basis of the wergild.
Now that the law compels a list of dangerous drugs on the label, the cures proceed admittedly by a reductive principle.
The poet when he wrote like this saw the erinyes with his own eyes, and he almost compels his readers to see them too.
The ogive arch of the nave compels you to raise your eyes to a great height.
They have raised the cost of everything we require because the tradesman compels us to pay his uncollected accounts.
The superscription, if original, compels us to treat the whole writing as not only late but pseudonymous.
The old weather god was Indra, who wars with Vritra or ahi, the dragon demon of drought, whom he compels to dispense the rain.
What do you think, eh, of the etiquette which compels him to such loneliness?
The vexatious thing in speaking of her is, that she compels to the use of the rhetorician's brass instrument.
This disconnection between the last two groups compels the reader to make the new grouping.
First of all it compels the proletariat to live in the most disgusting promiscuity.
An extrovert can hardly conceive the necessity which compels the Introvert to conquer the world by means of a system.
To these disadvantages must be added a third, the shoaling of the sea bottom, which compels ships to anchor far off shore.
It only disposes, necessitates and invincibly compels him to disbelieve other men's dead formulas, hearsays and untruths.
It compels legislative recognition of particular interests of the workers, by taking advantage of the divisions among the bourgeoisie itself.
Putting the end over his shoulders, he compels the sot to come along.
Self-consciousness compels such creatures to befoul their origin.
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