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How to use impelled in a sentence

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It was the same unrealism that once impelled me to enter the school swimming competition.
It is probable that the boldness of her temper impelled her sometimes to speak unwelcome truths to some of the people concerned in her affairs.
This indwelling of charity impelled her to freely go and lovingly come to the aid of her kinswoman.
She had it for many years but it was only when she recently moved to Wiltshire that she felt impelled to do something with it.
It found up to 300 jobs could be lost if hunting is banned and those concerned feel impelled to destroy their horses and dogs.
He paints a vivid picture of Victorian and Edwardian slummers and the social and sexual politics that impelled their urban journeys.
Religious exaltation and fear of a relief force impelled the crusaders, with no siege equipment, to a doomed attack on 13 June.
It was security considerations that impelled the moves, as well as concern for the safety of informal traders.
A brainwave impelled me to use my all ten fingers to capture the rhythm of the two.
The complex chromatic, often dark harmony, and caressing Latin-American lilt was impelled brightly by the pianist.
Her hair flopped around as she impelled her end of the see-saw to move up once again.
Rather, simply being able to begin to express reactions as mathematical entities with a view to balancing the various reagents impelled chemistry forward.
The driving force that impelled Newman along the path of conversion was conscience.
The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant.
As the murmuration pulses and swoops, the crowd of onlookers follow its progress as though the same simultaneous force impelled them too.
And they do line up: I hear of cases where some queue up several times in succession, impelled by the desire to renew the promised experience.
Desperation must have impelled him as the crowd bayed and the time remaining approached vanishing point.
Now the GOP, impelled by ideology matched to calculation, is trying the same game again.
The country was impelled to act, not based on what was known, but what was feared.
More and more of these gentlemen seem to feel impelled to do this, too, even though the truth is that there are not many sermonizers who can carry it off successfully.
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A ferocious cupidity, a brutal passion, have impelled the injurer of Louise Morel to the most odious crimes.
Deep and raggedly they drove, impelled by the brief flash of power that upbore their owner.
Believe me, I would not utter a word or write a line if I were not impelled to it.
I am impelled by no fanatical zeal, and have no creed or cult of my own to vindicate.
So vivid was this impression, that it impelled him to apostrophize the statue.
What sinister chain of circumstance had impelled Moraga, who Norton said was Galloway's man, to shoot down the cattle foreman?
But even in this he is impelled by the enthusiasm of an experimenter and a developer.
No sentiment of curiosity impelled them to raise their heads and scan the tree.
An invincible revolt, the anger of a wife buffeted at home, impelled her forward.
You looked so entrancingly beautiful as you were putting the kettle on for tea, that I was irresistibly impelled to kiss you!
When the balance-wheel, impelled by the escapement, rotates, it winds up the spring.
He drew the bolts, impelled Iscariot outward, and essayed to close the door.
He was about him as a lion among the fallow deer, when he is impelled by need and hunger.
He had visions of scenes that he was impelled to paint and he suffered from clairaudient hallucinations.
Now that the air impelled returns unto its place in a gyration or whirling, is evident from the Atoms or Motes in the Sun.
The pack was being impelled to the east by a tide-rip, and two huge masses of ice were driving down upon us on converging courses.
He becomes restless as the ocean, impelled by every contrary wind, and tost about by every sportive billow.
Before they got him into the river he had impelled the Kanakas to capture the prau.
The youth, regarding him with sidelong glances, felt impelled to change his purpose.
He was irresistibly impelled to address her with words of endearment.
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