Compelling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COMPELLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• COMPEL, to force
• force or oblige (someone) to do something
• bring about (something) by the use of force or pressure
• force to come or go in a particular direction
ADJECTIVE:
• driving or forcing
• tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to urge forcefully

Words related to COMPELLING

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Words that contain COMPELLING

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How to use COMPELLING in a sentence

• And he was equally unconscious of the immense service he rendered by compelling his host to talk and act naturally.
• The cardinal warned me that I was compelling you to this, and I laughed at him.
• Meanwhile events were gradually compelling her to take a more active part in politics.
• Hence they accused Beccaria of being the protector of robbers and murderers, because he wanted to abolish the only means of compelling them to a confession, the torture.
• There was the touch of a strange hand on hers, an altogether new touch, warm and compelling.
• The crowd, fascinated by her beauty, which the tempest of passion had transfigured into terrible and compelling majesty, was completely under her control.
• One at a time, compelling the others to remain in their places, he directed the return boys astern and ashore.
• It was a dignified, compelling color, while in its warm tone there was a hint of blood.
• Prescott made vivid and compelling those days, those things, which Katie had a little while before had the fancy of so easily slipping away from.
• He had been an excellent horseman, a sturdy swimmer, an unerring shot, compelling respect in those old, wild vacation days on the Florida plantation.
• I did think once of compelling you to right the wrong you have done me, but that is past.
• Cold climates, by compelling man to a perpetual contest with external nature, cause too much value to be attached to researches after comfort and luxury.
• His eyes were his predominant, his formidable, his compelling characteristic.
• Dwight, feeling the need of support or wishing to be guided into another room, had put her arm within mine, thus compelling my attention.
• Forms as solid and wondrous and compelling as his are about us.
• As the action of this latter influence is usually the more immediate, direct, and compelling, we may as well give it the foremost place in our consideration.
• The temptation to yield was both subtle and compelling.
• It protects labor by enforcing the performance of its duty, and it will assist capital by compelling just contributions to the demands of the Government.
• As in the dusky kitchen only a few days before, he felt the compelling influence of her nearness.
• He who does not love has no compelling motive toward God and no abiding principle to control life.
• It may as well be said that there was no compelling call for a separate French school in the nineteenth century as a national utterance.
• His whole look was dominant, compelling and fierce, as he leaned on his elbows and studied the opposing thickets through his glasses.
• Steep summits, impossible to ascend, impeded their advance, compelling them to turn aside, and attain the point above by a circuitous route.
• Arriving at White river, he and his party made a raft on which to cross with their guns and baggage, driving their horses into the river and compelling them to swim it.
• Excommunication was the most usual, as it was by far the most effective, weapon for compelling obedience to the mandate of the judge in any matter whatever.
• The reverent star-students of far-away Babylon were drawn to His birth by a compelling they could not resist.
• Many thoughtless citizens encouraged him, but the wise Washington, finding that Genet defied him, ended the business by compelling his country to recall him.
• She was saying that beginning and ending was not like continuing she being living and having one and not compelling saying.
• The wisdom of the South in compelling the papers to omit all mention of the facts in this case, is most unquestionable.
• There was about his earlier career something romantic and compelling.

Similar words containing MPELL without suffix ing and without prefix co

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