compulsively
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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Elliott checked and scrolled compulsively, bypassing the parental controls, sneaking down to grab his phone from the family charging unit in the kitchen at night.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
That those infected are compulsively helpful and blandly cheerful, like cult members asking you to “a party,” is no less, if not more, disturbing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
So advisers might raise another topic that tends to jolt even the most compulsively frugal clients: taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2025
His own style, which is to say his mind, was compulsively metaphorical, gorgeously maximal, enough so to make him worry about “an implicit marvelling at myself as expressor.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
He swallowed compulsively, feeling the scar tissue around his own throat contract.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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