Sentence examples for had a compulsive from inspiring English sources
The children of survivors who actively struggled against the Nazis, she found, had a compulsive ambition to achieve.
Ms. Atwood has always had a compulsive interest in the wonders -- and the blunders -- of scientific invention.
She described herself as "always happy," and she had a compulsive need to say what she thought and felt.
The great film-maker had a compulsive taste for unattainable blondes and Mary Rose, notwithstanding matrimony and motherhood (it's easier to think of her playing hide-and-seek with her boyish hubby than having sex with him) is, from one perspective, the ultimate in essential unattainability.
And contrary to what the Camden Country prosecutor has led the public to believe, union representatives for the social workers say, at least one child in the house had a compulsive eating disorder, pica, that might have compelled him to eat nonfood items like wallboard.
I also had a compulsive desire to shave my head and my eyebrows.
She has a compulsive attraction to water.
He definitely has a compulsive streak.
Certainly, he has a compulsive need for perfection.
This is someone who has a compulsive need to humiliate herself".
This omission does not stop the book having a compulsive, voyeuristic quality which is deeply pleasurable.
