Example Sentences

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One of the pleasures of writing for me is to discover what is it that is impelling me to engage with these characters.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2022

What is impelling the transformation is that the headquarters, constructed under the 1968 building code, do not meet current life-safety and other requirements.

From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2015

I am on my feet, and something is impelling me toward the door that leads out into the gardens.

From The House on the Borderland by Hodgson, William Hope

I can resist no more-something in me is impelling me forward--I am breaking away from my anchor!

From The King of the Dark Chamber by Tagore, Rabindranath

From without and at a distance, you cannot tell whether the upper is impelling the under, or the under moving the upper.

From The Parables of Our Lord by Arnot, William