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Example sentences for: compelled

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

(There is another scene I feel compelled to mention--the one in which the investment bankers and the company executives meet to decide about taking Healtheon public--that is, by itself, worth the price of the book.)
b) Is compelled by law to investigate diligently and forcefully.
I was compelled to pay strict attention (for four or five hours at a time) to setting, lighting, music, gesture, singing, pace of over-all presentation; to this or that role's performance, costume, formal distancing from the audience (Noh) or Globe-like intimacy with the audience (Kabuki); to traditional methods of men's playing women's parts, audience's anticipation and shouted recognition of favorite plays and actors and moments, tone of voice, etc.
And while it is true that no author, no matter how accomplished, ever ceases to struggle with the craft of writing, there is surely a difference between that stage when one is fumbling around, trying to discover if one can even be a writer, and the stage where one is fully confident of addressing the world as nothing but a writer, because one is as compelled to write as to breathe.
Anticipating this strategy, Congress passed the "Defense of Marriage Act" in 1996, declaring that states would not be compelled to recognize same-sex unions performed elsewhere.