impel
verb (used with object)
to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
will impel
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future tenseof impel.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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And that, hopefully, will impel elected officials and candidates to change their approaches to fiscal matters.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 13, 2018
But if Warmbier’s death affected Trump as deeply as he claims, Snyder also hopes it will impel the White House to factor the human-rights issue into a new approach.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2017
U.S. and European officials have clung to the hope that sanctions will impel Putin to abide by the Minsk accord, a September deal between Kiev and Moscow.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2014
If a sense of justice in this great mass of humanity can be aroused it will impel each and all to yield to the will of the orator.
From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Francis A. Adams
It will impel me also to enquire into the means of remedy.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
