Sentence examples for i compelled from inspiring English sources

In 656 Psamtik I compelled Thebes to submit.

"One, am I compelled by the mission, what an institution is doing?

But she did benefit from a "storytelling gene": "I compelled my younger sisters to sit still while I told them interminable tales.

I compelled the Parthians to return to me the spoils and standards of three Roman armies, and as suppliants to seek the friendship of the Roman people.

Whenever I wore it I felt I compelled to check that my undergarments were where they should be and in tip-top condition.

Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns: and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom far beyond my own hometown.

It wasn't, "I have this insight, I am compelled, I can do no other".

I felt compelled, though I wasn't sure why.

"I made it because I was compelled to make it, like I was compelled to make 'Mother'".

I feel compelled to speak: "I'm sorry, Joyce.

I'm compelled to rig the books, I'm compelled to lie, I'm compelled to say that I'm going to lower the budget, to pay people a percentage, etc., all sorts of things — to tell enormous lies.