Example sentences for: obliged

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

  • Since then, events have obliged Clinton to rethink his options.

  • Give French cooks a couple of eggs and they won’t just boil them, fry them, or make an omelette (all of which they’re quite prepared to do superlatively) — they feel obliged to produce a delicate soufflé or a rich hollandaise sauce that makes an egg proud to be an egg.

  • The latter is not readily analyzable by normal parsing, for if we are drawn to retain the adjectival nature of stiff (instead of conceding that it might be used as an adverb), we are obliged to characterize worried as having taken on the guise of a copula.

  • Anyone writing a book of this kind is obliged to go over certain common territory.

  • The world is morally obliged to intervene and prevent atrocities, even if this intervention does not resolve the underlying conflict.


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