Example sentences for: compelled

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

  • In a recent public debate with this reviewer, however, Amar stated clearly that he would accept the trade-off and give up police interrogation for compelled pretrial depositions.

  • As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.

  • Eventually famine compelled Abraham’s tribes to move into Egypt and into captivity.

  • Except in the case of the Beatles, where he's a convinced Lennonolater, Miller seems compelled to place at center stage the lesser-known members of any band.

  • The New York Times goes with Monica Lewinsky's upcoming compelled appearance before a Washington D.C. grand jury.


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