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How to use compulsion in a sentence

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I did have the compulsion, though to aim the camera towards the side of the room where the beds were.
Voting should be simple, especially in a country that uses compulsion to make people attend polling places.
Yet, he was a skilled bear killer, and the shared proficiency of hunter and quarry added another level of compulsion to the stories.
However, the commissioners admitted such compulsion was rarely realistic, considering the meagreness of most women's wages.
Bored of earthly delights, he takes his compulsion for pleasure to the nth degree.
Ethan smiled, enjoying the intimate sensation of the dewy skin he caressed with such compulsion.
Now, I've no specific objection to one's needy compulsion to share mundane personal blather but, for myself, I find it pointless and distracting.
I gave in to the compulsion to do a disappearing act at the end of the night.
But in the final laps of a close race, friends and family fade to black against the overpowering compulsion to win.
Having read through the seven articles in the latest DipWorld, I now feel a strange compulsion to submit my own two cents' worth.
Patients may complain of an inability to sit or stand still, or a compulsion to pace or cross and uncross their legs.
The compulsion that has driven the directors of these movies is beyond my understanding.
Unfortunately, it seems as if he has a compulsion to negate those brilliant pieces by introducing ill advised mushy sentimentality.
Whether struggling with drugs, alcohol, or some other compulsion, this series will help people discover that they were born to be free.
The essential feature of war communism was the substitution of compulsion for the workings of the market mechanism.
There must be a compulsion to say good-bye, a compulsion to take one's leave of the other; that is, to bid adieu.
It is an irresistible compulsion, driven by unshakeable guilt and the constant need for endorsement.
The government has moved away from compulsion towards economic incentives for couples who have only one child and fines for those who have more.
Emetophobia routinely leads to a fear of germs and a compulsion to clean and wash.
Introspection and a compulsion to fleet-footed unexpectedness mean that I sometimes cannot trust my inclinations.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And do you think me so spiritless as to believe that I can be yours by compulsion?
But, pepita, when you do right without compulsion, there are always two lumps.
It is from this negativity that duty lends itself to the legal idea of compulsion, and in general wears a legal garb.
She no longer felt old and wise, but young and helpless before the compulsion of the kindred soul.
The forgoing provisions do not apply to children who are under compulsion to attend the national schools.
The only compulsion we can apply in eugenics is the compulsion that comes from within.
You are better at home, under no compulsion to act dishonorably from indigence.
She craves nothing but the compulsion to unconditional obedience.
The method of compulsion failed to keep the tenants on the land.
She was driven by a compulsion to which fatigue was nothing.
Physical compulsion or restraint was effectual, of course, while it lasted.
And the case must be very flagrant in which its fallacy could be detected with sufficient certainty to justify the harsh expedient of compulsion.
It is not founded on the principle of arbitration or compulsion.
Whatever the compulsion put upon her, she ought to have withstood it.
Who but felt of late When the fierce Foe hung on our brok'n Rear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the Deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low?
Highcamp was a plain, bald-headed man, who only talked under compulsion.
So my son took, of his own will, and on no compulsion, to the course in which he can always, when it is his pleasure, outstrip every competitor,' she pursued.
To pack for days over the gale-swept passes or across the mosquito-ridden marshes, and to pack double the weight his comrade packed, did not involve unfairness or compulsion.
But I confess that many of the socialistic views that I have come across seem to me to be tainted with ideas of authority, if not of actual compulsion.
Jerking free from the arm that was all distasteful compulsion, Joan had slapped Tudor's face resoundingly and with far more vim and weight than when she had cuffed Gogoomy.
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