Synonyms

1. coercion

Sentence Examples

1. Instinct screamed at me to run, but it warred with an equally potent, nearly magnetic compulsion to go to him.
2. She certainly felt no compulsion to help Sully or even speak with the man.
3. Religion to him, then, had been nothing more than a compulsion for sad people with empty lives.
4. Now her only urge was to eavesdrop on the human world from time to time, though the compulsion was, more often than not, related to her desire to seek out her old lover.
5. Afterwards, he reflected on this decision and wondered if there had been any element of choice or, more likely, some unnoticed compulsion.
6. Pretending I could walk out of the shadow of a name other people would kill to have, without the compulsion to glance over my shoulder at every turn.
7. Then all was peace, all friendship, all concord as yet the dull share of the crooked plough had not dared to rend and pierce the tender bowels of our first mother that without compulsion yielded from every portion of her broad fertile bosom all that could satisfy, sustain, and delight the children that then possessed her.
8. She should stay out here in the darkness and just listen, but a compulsion gripped her.
9. The urge to save her, care for her, protect her, was so primal that his head throbbed with the compulsion as much as his dick throbbed with arousal at the very sight of her.
10. Then he sent Autumn Leaves the gesture to come to him accompanied by an intense wave of anger, hauteur and compulsion.