impels
- present tense form of impel (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Wilzek, the novel’s unlikely hero, does look closely, and what he sees impels him to take a moral stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
First, beauty impels us to pay a certain kind of attention.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2023
Instead, she approaches the exercises to test her fitness with a guilelessness that at first confounds him — but that ultimately impels him to confront his own tumultuous existence.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
The inspiration gained from that view might carry us well beyond the statistical forecast that impels the fatalistic alternative.
From Scientific American ● May 12, 2021
Science impels us to investigation, and to verify everything for ourselves.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
