impel
verb (used with object)
to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
impels
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present tense formof impel (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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It impels a creature who feels it to seek out much-needed water much more powerfully than any nonconscious mechanism could.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
What is it that impels Scarry to go there?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022
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
Not just because it inspires, but also because it impels.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
These are truisms, I admit, my young friends, yet the spirit of the age impels their iteration and re-iteration!
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Henry Lunettes
