Sample sentences for COMPULSORY

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Definition

required by rule

In most schools physical education is compulsory.

compulsory = required by rule

Education is compulsory for young children in the United States.
He didn't say anything then, but the next night he made us have compulsory study hall in the academic building and he came up and made a speech.
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

compulsory = required by rule

Where are your free and compulsory schools?
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The rule here is that one must be escorted up to the reading room in a lift, whose cramped space makes small talk compulsory as far as I'm concerned.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
He resumed his speech: "For more than twenty years I have amused my compulsory leisure with collecting these curious physical signatures in this town.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Sunday before there would be a compulsory church attendance.
James Lincoln Collier -- My Brother Sam is Dead
It ought to be compulsory for all policemen to have small children.
Cornelia Funke -- Inkheart
He had unconsciously dropped back into the phraseology of the first days of his compulsory greatness.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
As soon as he recovered, I related our compulsory visit, and detention at the Heights.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
Dick thought, for example, that nothing was more conducive to the development of observation than compulsory silence.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
As though something in their family genes had bestowed on them compulsory bumps that appeared randomly on different parts of their bodies.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
Comrades, I beg you—do not resort to compulsory taxation.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
Words like compulsory and duty were beaten into the page.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
Education is compulsory, that means required.
Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl -- Beautiful Creatures
That he was seriously considering following BoneMan's instructions felt at once sickening and compulsory.
Ted Dekker -- BoneMan's Daughters
The circumstances that resulted in, shall we say, my compulsory residency here in the Keep of Time were of my own making.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
No .... then the boys would have to learn Hindi or Tamil as a compulsory second language.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
It's not compulsory, you know.
George Bernard Shaw -- Pygmalion
Compulsory protection of the vice president didn't begin until 1962, reinforcing the notion that the vice presidency is a thankless job.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy

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