Sentence examples for be commanded to from inspiring English sources
noun
An order to do something.
- I was given a command to cease shooting.
Children do not have to be taught to seek friends; nor, at puberty, do they need to be commanded to fall in love.
Although the six-wheel, 400-pound vehicle is capable of covering the distance as a day trip, it will be commanded to move deliberately and feel its way over the unknown terrain.
Early in his career, while developing a machine that used servomotors, which can be commanded to start and stop very precisely, Mr. Gilmore began considering ways that they might be used in a self-tuning piano.
For example, it could be commanded to start only with an unusual gesture — perhaps drawing a circle in the air, or touching a certain number of fingers on the wall.
After sweeping past a moon-washed Seine, for instance, runners may be commanded to drop to the ground in the courtyard of the Louvre for sets of situps, to the amusement of tourists and locals alike.
The most frequent form of this belief is that of the familiar an animal whose soul is bound up with that of the sorcerer, whose form the sorcerer can assume, and who may be commanded to serve his evil master.
Our eyes are commanded to open.
Others were commanded to check in postage-stamp-sized purses.
Owners were commanded to take care of their weapons.
Interested parties are commanded to stop being so common at once.
But he sympathized with officers who had been commanded to shoot their fellow-citizens.
