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

Then came its invariable attendant denunciations, imprisonments, exile, to all who were suspected of a love of liberty, whether it had impelled them to deeds, or only influenced their words.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by