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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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hither to occupied, but one 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 that impel them to such a course, We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal;† (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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He wondered why this was a motive that had no power to impel him.† (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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I believe in the power of duty to impel.† (source)
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He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.† (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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Before closing I feel impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly.† (source)
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