How to use "compulsion" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "compulsion" in popular movie and book plots

  • Avery, a secret Spirit user, has been using compulsion to control Lissa.  - Vampire Academy
  • So, in his compulsion to deliver, Boris decides to fill his quota by enticing some unsuspecting civilians onto the bus.  - The Straitjacket Lottery
  • This initiates a compulsion to agree unconditionally to the advances of men.  - A Rage to Live
  • Shantidevi refuses to hire Krishnan but later due to her dad's compulsion she recruits Krishnan.  - Mannan (film)
  • She has a compulsion to help him, despite his violent assault.  - Dark Desire
  • ' It is apparent that he has a compulsion to go on, knowing that he will eventually be caught.  - The Thief of Paris
  • Blaumilch is a lunatic with a digging compulsion who escapes from an insane asylum.  - Blaumilch Canal
  • He feels the compulsion to kill rising again, however, as his id, Marshall (William Hurt), becomes more insistent.  - Mr. Brooks
  • But at home, upon the compulsion from Ravi, the family decides to get Abhirami married to Dennis.  - Summer in Bethlehem
  • He does suggest to Delacro, however, that he feels a compulsion to defend his wife's honor, and therefore challenges the American to a duel.  - The Grass Is Greener
  • When fourteen-year-old Jo Tiegan is shopping with her father in 1995, she notices an antique shop which she feels a compulsion to go to.  - Mirror, Mirror (TV series)
  • When the human murderer in finally found, he confesses that his compulsion to kill was excited by the first leopard attack.  - The Leopard Man
  • Dev is faced with the spectre of the tragic human cost and a moral compulsion to act.  - Dev (film)
  • The movie's focus is on Mahowny as a character—how his compulsion drives him and all the domino effects it has on the rest of his life.  - Owning Mahowny
  • For reasons only partly comprehensible to himself, Bourne develops a compulsion to hunt Carlos.  - The Bourne Identity (novel)
  • Bijaz also implants a compulsion that will force Duncan to attempt to kill Paul, given the appropriate circumstances.  - Dune Messiah

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