Compel Verb 1 2 3, Past and Past Participle Form Tense of Compel V1 V2 V3
compel
Meanings;
- Force or oblige (someone) to do something.(verb)
| Verb(V1) | Past Tense(V2) | Past Participle(V3) |
| compel | compelled | compelled |
| Verb – es(Ves) | Verb – ing(Ving) |
| compels | compelling |
Synonyms
force, coerce into, pressurize into, pressure, impel, drive, press, push, urge, prevail on,
Example Sentences with compel
- I was compelled to do the work alone.
- Alex felt compelled to speak.
- This compelled me to stay another week.
- A good book … leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.
- I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
- Alex and I were compelled to put off our departure.
- Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
- We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
- Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.
- I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
