Sample Sentences for
obligate
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    If you keep at it any longer I'll feel obligated to help.  (source)
    obligated = compelled
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    Obviously don't feel obligated to be there, but ... do be there.  (source)
    obligated = required
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    He held it in his hand, feeling obligated.†  (source)
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    As a doctor she was morally obligated to save his life.†  (source)
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    On the contrary, she was often troubled by a desire to like those whom she sought to use, and per contra, not to obligate herself to those whom she could not like.†  (source)
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    Conclave procedure obligates—†  (source)
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    She liked his willingness to buy her any little thing in which she appeared interested—a bag, a scarf, a purse, a pair of gloves—anything that she could reasonably ask or take without obligating herself too much.†  (source)
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    There's something I feel obligated to tell you.†  (source)
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    Coble's bill would for the first time obligate franchise chains to act in "good faith," a basic tenet of the nation's Uniform Commercial Code.†  (source)
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    Mom's only fear is that Mickey and his friends will feel obligated to fill them with their presents.†  (source)
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    He could not even guess the price of such a thing—it might cost two or three hundred, even—and he feared to obligate himself to do something which later he might not be able to do.†  (source)
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    We weren't exactly obligated to watch, but it was unwise to miss it.†  (source)
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    He also approved /to obligate/.†  (source)
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