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How to use compelled in a sentence

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Three seconds later I was compelled to pat the floor in token of surrender.
At the time I didn't like it, but later, when I found the song in an opportunity shop, I was compelled to buy it.
These realities are unbeknownst to the forfeiter of the information, and yet we are compelled to act as a reluctant voyeur.
They were forlorn, dejected, and pleading, yet so serenely resolved he was compelled to do as she asked.
We saw Fritz try to get several other balloons but the anti-aircraft guns compelled him to fly high and so he could not make a direct hit.
He was compelled to start negotiations, make peace, and suffer the humiliation of becoming vassal to the Turkish sultan.
As a Vancouverite, I feel compelled to watch the Winter Olympics taking place in Salt Lake City.
He was compelled to comment on the causes of the tragedy and the abject conditions that prevailed on the reservation.
Thank the Lord, you no longer feel compelled to wait up until midnight on New Year's Eve.
He was driven by feelings of resentment and hatred, and felt compelled not only to defeat his enemies, but to humiliate them.
If you don't obey the higher law of prudence by watching your step on an icy day, you will be compelled to obey the lower law of gravity.
I was compelled to go and have a quiet word with the lighting man, who very kindly obliged me and reduced the glare factor.
Still, there is something he wrote recently and that I am compelled to disagree with that must be woven into my story here.
You may then be able to jockey your way to victory, or you may be willing or compelled to accept a draw.
He compelled some fettlers to remove rails from the rail track, because they were expecting a train with a number of police.
He suffered from an affection of the bladder, and was at length compelled to resort to a surgical operation for relief.
The commission, despite its attempts to whitewash the government, was compelled to admit that slavery existed.
Despite the loss of their capital, the Khmer counter-attacked and by 1432 had compelled the Thais to retire.
Unlike the change from old to new money, we have not been compelled to accept kilos and grams.
He would probably have been compelled to commit punk hara-kiri by impaling himself on a winklepicker.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The rapidity of the current was such that they were frequently compelled to cross the river to take advantage of the eddies.
It will not be my fault that I am compelled to disappoint the Count von hern.
We have lost five days here, and I shall be compelled to curtail my journey.
Women who had been convicted of adultery, were compelled to give a part of their dowery to their deceived husbands.
Zeus grew up, and by some means, suggested by Gaea, compelled Zeus to disgorge all his offspring.
The Helvetii were defeated with great slaughter, and the remnant compelled to return to their former homes.
But the compurgation was now completed, and the Cid was compelled to do homage.
We regret to be compelled to garble in our extract so fine a passage of writing.
After laying to for three hours they were compelled to scud before the wind.
However, he was compelled to leg it at the point of an American bayonet in the hands of an American doughboy.
Like Jacob Grimm, he compelled me, as an egyptologist, to remain in connection with the kindred departments.
The author of this ridiculous tale deserves the fate of Pistol, whom fluellen compelled to eat his leek, skin and all.
The Goshawk griped the muscle of Farina's arm till the youth was compelled to slacken it with pain.
The manner of the utterance, and the thought compelled the hegumen's notice.
The lateness of the hour compelled her to take a circuitous route to London.
I shall be compelled to mention in my report how you and other ladies add to our difficulties.
I followed him to Lydia's cabin, where he compelled her to drink this solution of copperas.
And compelled to slip back to the ballroom, she crushed the note into her corsage.
This is Buffon's way of satirizing our inability to bear in mind that we are compelled to judge all things by our own standards.
He worked himself as a scissor grinder and sent the boys out as musicians, and compelled them at times to beg for money.
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