impel
verb (used with object)
to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
had impelled
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past perfectof impel.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But the pandemic had impelled many researchers to shift their work to SARS-CoV-2, which for the past 18 months had become the facility’s main focus.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021
All this firepower had impelled tens of thousands of civilians to leave the city, despite the Prime Minister’s directive.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 29, 2017
Returning to Palermo some years later, I asked veteran activist Edoardo Zaffuto what had impelled young people like him to throw in their lot with Addiopizzo, knowing that this could put them at personal risk.
From Newsweek
But up to this week nothing had impelled the President to call Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon, and dissenting Democrats to rule with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had not realized that she was any more to him now than she had ever been––yet she had impelled him to do an unusual thing from the first.
From The Web of the Golden Spider by Harrison Fisher
