Sample Sentences forimpel (editor-reviewed)
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The desire to make a difference in the world impelled her to pursue a career in medicine.impelled = drove
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Concern for her children's safety impelled her to take action and confront the intruder.
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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. (source)impel = drive
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Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant.† (source)
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The remainder may perhaps be applied to purposes equally valuable hereafter, or not impossibly may be worked up, so far as they go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me to so pious a task.† (source)
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He wondered why this was a motive that had no power to impel him.† (source)
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Impelled by some urge, half pity and half annoyance, Kit came forward from the shelter of the trees.† (source)
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She felt reborn in her heart the rancor that she had felt in other days for Rebeca, and begging God not to impel her into the extreme state of wishing her dead, she banished her from the sewing room.† (source)
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Who would have thought that upon the proud day when this battle was won, the very gale which waved the Saxon banners in triumph, was filling the Norman sails, and impelling them to the fatal shores of Sussex?† (source)
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The guard has a son twenty-three years old, and the slaying impels the young man to go to the United States.† (source)
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There are times, Your Honor, when reality bears features of such an impellingly moral complexion that it is impossible to follow the hewn path of expediency.† (source)
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Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal.† (source)
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To her, each shot seemed to impel him forward, the reverse of her desire; and for him, the closer he got to her, the more she shot him.† (source)
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A seer's spirit took possession of Elizabeth, impelling her to sit down by the fire and divine events so surely from data already her own that they could be held as witnessed.† (source)
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I cannot prevent your cultivating this acquaintance now that it has been made, if curiosity impels you to do so.† (source)
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A combination of horror and desire subsequently impelled him back each evening, despite his earlier resolution that they do nothing that was disrespectful to his parents, and they would touch and stroke and taste, always stopping short of sex, upon which she no longer insisted, and which they had by now found ample means to circumvent.† (source)
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