COMPULSIVE in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for COMPULSIVE, such as:
1. I will pay nothing under compulsion.
2. The desire to laugh became a compulsion.
3. The legal system is based on compulsion.
4. Slaves work by compulsion, not by choice.
5. You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
2. The desire to laugh became a compulsion.
3. The legal system is based on compulsion.
4. Slaves work by compulsion, not by choice.
5. You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of COMPULSIVE
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compulsive
a. strongly motivated to succeed
a. caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion
Classic Sentence:
1 Physical compulsion or restraint was effectual, of course, while it lasted.
2 'So my son took, of his own will, and on no compulsion, to the course in which he can always, when it is his pleasure, outstrip every competitor,' she pursued.
3 He drew it under the sleeve of his mulberry-coloured great-coat, and I walked on, almost upon compulsion, arm-in-arm with him.
4 In Vida's demands Carol felt a compulsion, but she was too listless to obey.
5 Mr. Highcamp was a plain, bald-headed man, who only talked under compulsion.
6 She was resenting as she always did, the compulsion from outside.
7 Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
8 Yet perchance to-morrow deception will so act on me, that I shall, on compulsion, consider such a contemptible possession as the utmost happiness.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
Context Highlight In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
9 In all these cases the conception of freedom is increased or diminished and the conception of compulsion is correspondingly decreased or increased, according to the point of view from which the action is regarded.
10 After Emancipation, and still earlier in the North, the Negro churches largely severed such affiliations as they had had with the white churches, either by choice or by compulsion.
11 Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
Example Sentence:
1 The aim of the repetitions of the same commercial on television is nothing but to brainwash consumers into compulsive sonsumption.
2 He was a compulsive gambler and often heavily in debt.
3 There were hundreds of warrior-robots of various sizes walking about, waving arms and rods, having no tasks to do, but in compulsive, meaningless motion.
4 Slaves work by compulsion, not by choice.
5 He felt a sudden compulsion to drop the bucket and run.
6 There is an element of compulsion in the new scheme for the unemployed.
7 You are under no compulsion to pay immediately.
8 The desire to laugh became a compulsion.
9 The legal system is based on compulsion.
10 I will pay nothing under compulsion.
11 There are no compulsions on students to attend classes.