Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: compels
IPA transcription: [kəmp'ɛlz]
Usage examples
  • It is the dead hand that thus compels millions of American women to remain in the bondage of maternity.
  • He was now somewhat advanced into the shaving age, and was ready to assume offices the most opposite in character; although justice compels us to say Mr. Rapid was as fit for one thing as another.
  • I yield, therefore, to the necessity which compels my reluctant acquiescence; and shall now turn all my thoughts upon considering of such methods for the conducting this enterprise, as may be most conducive to the happiness of my child and least liable to wound her sensibility.