Sentence examples for were impelled from inspiring English sources
verb
To urge a person; to press on; to incite to action or motion via intrinsic motivation (contrast with propel, to compel or drive extrinsically).
For a dedicated core of abolitionists, and for those enlistees in the Union army who were impelled by antislavery ardor, "John Brown's Body" served as a rallying cry.
Both are from Arkansas, and they said they were impelled to break with their party because, um, the system is broken.
Not those who were impelled to work there or compelled to grieve there, but the many more who have been waiting.
They were impelled to compliment a Negro corporal at a camp in the Middle West, who drove 30 miles per hour.
Yuja has made changes in her professional life that she is not sure have solved the problems of doubt and restlessness by which they were impelled.
They were impelled by a number of disparate forces, including the oppression of their community in Lebanon by the country's Sunni and Christian élites, and the rapture they felt in 1979 as Iran came under the power of "pure" Islam.
I suspect problems other than the stock market were impelling Greenspan's cut.
She's impelled to codify.
The blackmailing was impelled solely by a craving for amusement.
An activist is impelled by a cause and adopts it.
Even the vice-president was impelled to respond.
