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Example sentences for: compels

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

Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
This infantile, dull-witted, dreamy stutter compels whoever uses it to conform to the infantile, dull-witted type.
What compels the lawyerly approach is not priggishness on the part of the Times (well, not entirely) but limitations of space.
Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient artifact: one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese soldiers: the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.
While nothing in the CBS-Viacom merger compels the establishment of a Dan Rather-Angela Lansbury Love Ranch in the high desert near Newhall, Calif., to breed "the next generation of network stars," nothing in the deal expressly forbids it, nor does the above use of quotation marks mean that anyone is actually being quoted.