Sentence examples for had a compulsion from inspiring English sources

Sport has always had a compulsion to find extremes, and cheating is nothing new.

"I think I've always had a compulsion to write dialogue rather than prose or poetry," she said recently.

He had a compulsion, which seemed to him to be mysterious, to confess and describe everything that claimed his concentration.

Smith remembers Harold Miner, who had a compulsion to touch just about everything with his nose — his shoes, his headband, the basketball.

"Woodpecker" is about a woman named Mary Sweeny, who was from La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the early twentieth century and had a compulsion to break windows.

"I had always had a compulsion to buy," she continued, opening up her stuffed showroom closets, filled with piles of sweaters and suits.

"I have a compulsion to create music," he said.

She sees an egg and she has a compulsion to do that.

Doris has a compulsion about entering her mother-in-law's house on her right foot.

In addition, he said, "we have a compulsion to confess our miscalculations and misdeeds.

And, like his father, he has a compulsion to film family events.