How to Use compulsion in a Sentence

compulsion

noun

• I gave in to one of my compulsions and ordered the chocolate dessert.
• We should be able to get them to cooperate without using compulsion.
• Some, if not most, of them are artists, and most artists feel the compulsion to create.
  — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
• Over time, my routine of weighing myself once a week became a compulsion to step on the scale once a day.
  — Kate Bernyk, Allure, 3 Oct. 2017
• All lovers prey to helpless compulsion are blown as if by buffeting winds, and in any direction.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• There is no compulsion in religion,’ and in Djibouti, this appears to be true.
  — Rachel Pieh Jones, Longreads, 22 Dec. 2017
• Most importantly, these obsessions and compulsions are a source of stress and pain.
  — Lux Alptraum, SELF, 1 Nov. 2017
• Remaining twinned with his creation has become a compulsion.
  — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017
• That shock can lead people to believe that these destructive compulsions are unusual.
  — Susan Matthews, Slate Magazine, 11 Oct. 2017
• In August of this year, Wells was charged in the Bessemer division with rape by forcible compulsion.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Courts would be inundated with cases in which the claims of addiction and compulsion will be easy to raise and hard to adjudicate.
  — Stephen J. Morse and, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
• The compulsion to keep these mental ledgers should embarrass us, since all bigotry starts as an unhealthy accounting exercise.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
• But what lingers afterward is what preceded it: the unnerving sense of getting too close to someone whose interest in sketchy ideas has become a poisonous compulsion.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Sep. 2024
• As if these compulsions weren’t hollow enough, push notification technology rendered pull-to-refresh obsolete years ago.
  — Catherine Cusick, Longreads, 11 Oct. 2017
• The fact that the thoughts don’t go away quickly on their own, and instead stick in the mind is where the compulsions come in.
  — Elizabeth King, Allure, 15 Oct. 2019
• And when compulsion is the father, the role of choice recedes.
  — Liesl Schillinger, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2021
• Part of this is pure compulsion; part of it is born out of a sincere form of care.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2021
• The first: a compulsion to be outside—to binge on open space and soothing scenery.
  — Brigid Mander, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2021
• As the woman writhed, the compulsion started to spread.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2021
• The Welsh have a word for this sort of compulsion to look back: hiraeth (pronounced ‘here-eye-th’).
  — Longreads, 25 June 2019
• The present compulsion of elite schools is to open their ranks to those who may not initially be elite.
  — WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
• Music is an art form, and for true artists, the creative process is a compulsion.
  — Tony Fletcher, WSJ, 27 June 2019
• For so long, the compulsion to apply herself had served her well.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 26 Aug. 2021
• There’s a reason: Onscreen, pop stars tend to confuse the impulse to act with the compulsion to pose.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Nov. 2021
• Stinging eyes and throats and the compulsion to gag and cough from pepper spray or tear gas will subside.
  — Terry Demio, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2020
• Darr's body checking -- whether with her thumbs or in the mirror -- is one compulsion among many.
  — Maria Morava and Scottie Andrew, CNN, 21 Feb. 2021
• For the United States and Europe, this compulsion may well grow.
  — Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
• Not just by the compulsion of use, but in the physical connection to it by thin, white wire.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2018
• The compulsion to tie things out would be well nigh irresistible.
  — Peter J Reilly, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• But then the feeling started to emerge, that undeniable thing that every artist is blessed and cursed by: a compulsion to express.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024