Sentence examples for compulsively from inspiring English sources
The word "compulsively" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing someone or something that does something out of an overwhelming urge or compulsion, often difficult to resist. For example, "John compulsively checks his phone at least five times an hour."
adverb
In a compulsive manner; obsessively.
I've been trying to change since I was eight, when I was struggling to stop myself compulsively stealing.
The compulsively watchable Ms Mirren brings out the humour and the pathos in this contradiction".
I have fantasy arguments in my head, compulsively rehearsing every possible fight I might have in the future.
AC Food photography has changed a good deal since that old rogue Clement Freud was the Observer Magazine's cookery writer and people like me read him compulsively.
All that seemed to be missing, as he rocked back and forth compulsively in his studio chair, were two steel balls juggling in his hands.
At some point, all will be revealed – audiences compulsively desire – even demand answers.
The best ones are so compulsively distracting that they entice the reader on a chase that takes him ever further away from the entry he intended to consult.
The PPP, for example, has little support in NWFP or the tribal areas.Blundering, incompetent and compulsively dictatorial as General Musharraf has turned out to be, this is why America is unlikely to withdraw much support from him.
That someone as clever and compulsively explanatory as Auden should also be a great poet amounts to a miracle in this age of specialisation.Late in life Auden wrote, "His guardian-angel/has always told him/What and whom to read next".
This is what makes the videos compulsively watchable, despite the excessive stimuli.
At his home they had already seen him compulsively realign silverware on his dining table and milk cartons in his refrigerator.
