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"Compel" in a Sentence (25 examples)
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Hunger is a very powerful human instinct which can compel us to extremes of behaviour.
I compel you to adhere to our master's teachings.
O Muse, assist me and inspire my song, / the various causes and the crimes relate, / for what affronted majesty, what wrong / to injured Godhead, what offence so great / Heaven's Queen resenting, with remorseless hate, / could one renowned for piety compel / to brave such troubles, and endure the weight / of toils so many and so huge. O tell / how can in heavenly minds such fierce resentment dwell?
With gushing tears I bid the pair farewell. / "Live happy ye, whose destinies are o'er; / we still must wander where the Fates compel."
Shall we compel you to accept it?
At this the innkeeper waxed very wroth, and threatened if he did not pay to compel him in a way that he would not like.
I won't compel you to do it.
True stoicism requires separating your emotions from your logical thought processes and recognizing they have no power on their own to compel you to any decision, not denying their existence and burying them.
The shepherds compelled the stray sheep into the fold as night began to fall.
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She had one of those perfect faces, which irresistibly compel the soul of a man.
Logic compels the wise, while fools feel compelled by emotions.
Congratulations, your courage compels respect.
Against my will, / As Pompey was, am I compell’d to set / Upon one battle all our liberties.
Wolsey […] compelled the people to pay up the whole subsidy at once.
To me it seems that extensive investment in relatively low-powered units may have the same ultimate result of motive power shortage as that which afflicts the London Midland Region today, and which has compelled the re-engining of some of the earlier multiple-unit diesel train sets.
Sellafield compels this kind of gaze into the abyss of deep time because it is a place where multiple time spans – some fleeting, some cosmic – drift in and out of view.
As the novel progresses, it picks up a propulsive energy, the kind that compels you to keep reading straight through to the end.
Commissions, which compel from each / The sixth part of his substance.
The Queen has nothing but the power to execute the laws, to adjust grievances and to compel order.
Easy sleep their weary limbs compell'd.
And I will fetch you forage from all fields, / For I compel all creatures to my will.
in one troop compell'd
She had this knight from far compeld.
the pow'rs that I compel / Shall throw thee hence, and make thy head run ope the gates of hel
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