compels

Example Sentences

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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is like that quote from detective Benoit Blanc in Knives Out: “It makes no damn sense. Compels me though.”

From The Verge • Jul. 26, 2022

It is your beauty, were his power and spirit Ten times more hauty-ventrous then it is, Compels it stoope in homage to your foot As trembling Lambs when they to Lions couch.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

The hunters' mingled cry Compels the hare to fly.

From A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine by Billinghurst, Percy J.

Compels us to replace him and sets us back a week.

From A Mummer's Tale by Roche, Charles E.

Compels immediate and enduring interest on the part of the reader.

From The Copper Princess A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Rogers, W. A. (William Allen)