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Example sentences for: compel

How can you use “compel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

And even there, the fluctuations do not appear to compel as large a risk premium as exists, unless the aversion to risk is irrational.
The Government collects these amounts through its power to compel payment.
First of all by acknowledging, rather than suppressing in a panic, the erotic feelings we have about children: We should realize that finding children seductive does not compel us to fondle them "in a yucky way," as the day-care prosecutors so nicely put it.
It is as not as though when AT&T starts its broadband system that it can compel me to join it.
"The fiery aspects of thought and feeling that initially compel the artistic voyage--fierce energy, high mood, and quick intelligence; a sense of the visionary and the grand; a restless and feverish temperament--commonly carry with them the capacity for vastly darker moods, grimmer energies, and, occasionally, bouts of 'madness.