sense of obligation

Example Sentences

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The story has been a family inheritance that has helped guide Marce’s grandson through the upheavals of the century, instilling him with principles and a guiding sense of obligation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

This includes throwing away items, including gifts, that have been kept through a sense of obligation rather than enjoyment.

From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025

What, exactly, about the Senate was supposed to appeal to Kemp, other than a sense of obligation to run for the party’s sake?

From Slate • May 10, 2025

Did you feel a sense of obligation to the original and now deceased Luddites, to rehabilitate their image after they've been effectively defamed for the last two centuries?

From Salon • Oct. 3, 2023

The next morning, over breakfast, it’s on an impulse that I ask her, maybe from a sense of obligation, or maybe from a small hope that she’ll enjoy seeing this piece of my world.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau