Sentence examples for compelled to gather from inspiring English sources
And on March 18, the acting governor was among the scores of the powerful and influential who felt almost compelled to gather at the North Ward Center for Mr. Adubato's annual commemoration of St. Patrick, the patron of the Irish, and St. Joseph, whose March 19 feast day is celebrated in many Italian households.
I feel compelled to gather my rosebuds, so to speak, while I still may.
Which is probably why Sherman-Palladino felt compelled to gather members of her cast earlier this month to film one final goodbye dance.
But something compels us to gather together and make it a shared activity.
As the Vietnam-era draft did, the crippled economy has inspired the kind of fear and craving for change that compels people to gather and shout.
There are great national gatherings – the Melbourne Cup, or huddled around a giant screen erected in town squares during the Sydney Olympics – but only one thing can really compel us to gather together, and that is a federal election.
Nevertheless compelled to act, Soult instead gathered an army of 20,000 men, mainly from V Corps, and launched an expedition into Extremadura with the aim of capturing the Spanish fortress at Badajoz and thereby drawing some of the Allied forces away from Masséna and the Lines of Torres Vedras.
When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned campsites, over which scavenger angles wheel on heavy wings.
The elephant got loose, wreaked havoc in a small village, trampled someone, and subsequently calmed down, but a crowd had gathered, and he felt compelled to act so as to impress them and establish his own authority.
In my new faculty role, I gathered it was common knowledge that residents felt compelled to lie about their hours both to allow themselves time to complete work and to protect the program out of loyalty and pragmatism since closure of the program would interrupt their training.
