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compel sentence examples

  • Compel admiration in its own right.
  • All this he brushed aside as tho it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him.
  • Compelled by necessity to refer itself to that same judgment.
  • Compelled to resign from the council.
  • Compelled reluctantly to number myself.
  • Compel attendance or the production of documents.
  • This will be the condition people suffer from when they can't begin to watch anything without feeling compelled to watch something else.
  • Compelled by circumstance to go, whether i wish it or not.
  • Compelled to surrender.
  • Nevertheless, being thus strangely compelled, the man descended and focused his camera on the snowy roadway.
  • Compel witnesses to attend.
  • Compelled to retire from the active ministry in 1896 through ill health.
  • She put the box in her pocket, and thus compelled me to keep her ring.
  • Compel compliance.
  • Compelled to withdraw their subscriptions.
  • Their unfavorable reports intensified the worsening situation and finally compelled percival to surrender.
  • Compelled to admit that if you want to be a rigorous humanist you would have to vote lib dem.
  • Compelled to flee because his act was witnessed by a hebrew.

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