Sentence examples for be impelled from inspiring English sources
verb
To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).
Her performers, like the puppet, appear to be impelled by forces outside themselves.
War photographers inherited what glamour going to war still had among the anti-bellicose, especially when the war was felt to be one of those rare conflicts in which someone of conscience would be impelled to take sides.
At certain times, however, the companies might be impelled to do so: when a company disbanded or when it was put into enforced inactivity by visitations of the plague or when the plays were no longer current.
After encountering this novel's manifestation of cultural illness, the tribes of the outer boroughs may be impelled to march upon Manhattan to enslave the emotionally warped hoarders of jewels and neuroses who reside therein.
Referring to his written directions he said marital coercion meant that a wife "was so affected to be impelled to commit the offence because she truly believed she had no real choice".
Facing this prospect, businesses on both sides of the English Channel would be impelled to campaign openly for Britain to keep full EU membership, instead of quietly lobbying for special deals for their own sectors.
She's impelled to codify.
The blackmailing was impelled solely by a craving for amusement.
An activist is impelled by a cause and adopts it.
Even the vice-president was impelled to respond.
Every vocal phrase is impelled by the emotion and dramatic intention of the moment.
