How to Use compulsory in a Sentence

compulsory

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• Imagine that a new religion emerged on earth in the last year, universally adopted and vaguely compulsory.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
• All of Honduras was on high alert, with compulsory evacuations that began before the weekend.
  — The Associated Press, NOLA.com, 16 Nov. 2020
• In October, the government made masks compulsory for people to wear in most public indoor settings.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Vaccination won’t be compulsory, Macron said, and the campaign could start as early as the end of December for the most fragile people.
  — William Horobin, Bloomberg.com, 24 Nov. 2020
• For most health care workers, an annual flu shot is compulsory, as are immunizations for measles, mumps, chickenpox and other infectious diseases.
  — Christine Vestal, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2020
• At Disney, classes in drawing and composition were compulsory.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• Hong Kong issued its first compulsory testing order Sunday, requiring people who been on the premises of any of 14 dance centers this month to be screened.
  — Rebecca Choong Wilkins, Bloomberg.com, 22 Nov. 2020
• Social distancing rules remain, wearing face masks is compulsory in public and voters were instructed to wash their hands and had their temperature taken before voting.
  — Sabina Niksic, Star Tribune, 15 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• But, Spain has stopped compulsory wearing of mask outdoors.
  — Scroll Staff, Quartz, 29 June 2021
• Voting is compulsory in Window Shop, so someone had to win.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2022
• The court ruled that in the absence of a law, Israel’s compulsory military service applies to the ultra-Orthodox like any other citizen.
  — Tia Goldenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2024
• Students at the university receive compulsory military training, something that is unique among France’s Grand Écoles.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024