How to Use compulsory in a Sentence

compulsory

adjective

• When two viruses infect the same cell at the same time such swaps are more or less compulsory.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
• Once that is reached, EO-20 will no longer be compulsory.
  — Emily Goodykoontz, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2021
• In the old days, many people who didn’t want to wear the hijab kind of accepted the compulsory hijab, went along with it.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 29 Sep. 2022
• The act itself—putting a record on to fill the room—felt significantly less compulsory to me.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
• The jerk wings are saucy, spicy, slippery and compulsory eating.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• Center-lock wheels are compulsory, for one, and the front and rear anti-roll bars are adjustable through three settings each.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2022
• In North Rhine-Westphalia, masks will be compulsory in the classroom, too—but only until the end of August.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
• Most reservists were already in Israel at the time of the call-up – the largest such compulsory mobilization since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
  — Helen Coster and Alexander Cornwell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
• Federal sentencing guidelines, which are not compulsory, called for a prison term in the range of 37 to 46 months.
  — Paul Duggan, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• In red zones, the authorities are able to make masks compulsory outdoors and close bar.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
• August had come round once more with its compulsory lusciousness, its tang of cherries on the tongue.
  — Deborah Landau, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• He was arrested in 2018 for protesting against the compulsory wearing of the hijab.
  — Reuters, CNN, 12 Feb. 2023
• None of this convinced the City Council to abandon the compulsory homeless voucher scheme.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Schools made liberal use of corporal punishment—a leather strap to the palms in O’Toole’s school, a bamboo cane to the palms in mine—and the teaching of Irish was compulsory.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2022
• In Arizona, school is compulsory, which means state law requires every child between the ages of 6 and 16 to attend school.
  — Lily Altavena, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
• In some of these countries, voting is compulsory, and in most of them, Election Day is a holiday.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2020
• A couple of decades ago, sporting them was compulsory, a rule enforced with beatings by the Taliban.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
• To beat a team like Gonzaga, on a night like this, an unbending resolve to win is compulsory.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2022
• And, of course, the compulsory hijab has become a symbol of that struggle in a country where women can’t become judges.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
• The system is not compulsory, and so far only a fraction of the companies working on self-driving-car tech have signed up.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 16 June 2020
• The company added that masks will be compulsory for customers, and that anyone who could not comply with the checklist would be able to reschedule their flight.
  — NBC News, 10 June 2020
• However, what’s taking place on the ground should not be reduced to the women’s compulsory wearing of the headscarf or the bodily rights.
  — Tara Kangarlou, Time, 5 Oct. 2022
• Uruguayans are not obliged to vote in the plebiscites, but voting in the congressional and presidential races is compulsory.
  — Nayara Batschke and Isabel Debre, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2024
• The point of having blanket compulsory licenses is to streamline the process and avoid a bunch of negotiations that stem the free flow of music.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• Here’s the thing, though: Attendance on Friday is not compulsory.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
• In some countries, voting is compulsory, and citizens are given the day off to cast their ballots.
  — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Sep. 2024
• In the past decade, such threats have led to incidents like acid attacks against women who have not fully adhered to compulsory hijab rules.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2023
• In the compulsory paradise of Big Tech, the seduction of convenience wears down ethical resistance, at least in the short term.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• In the wake of the Mahsa Amini demonstrations, both actors — like their director, exiled in Europe — decided to no longer take part in projects that required them to wear Iran’s compulsory hijab.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
• Women are exempt from compulsory conscription, and volunteer females account for only 3.6% of the Korean military, according to the Defense Ministry.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025