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Directly employing subcontractors could also impel Amazon to carry more expensive insurance coverage, which would raise delivery costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

The rules of Washington would normally impel a person at Esper’s level to seek cover for his actions.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2024

John Bulkeley, the Wager’s gunner, a weapons expert and “instinctive leader” whose Bible-inspired narrative gifts would impel him to write an indelible account of events.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

But Tuesday seemed to outdo them all and to impel our still-wintry Washington air into memorably vigorous motion.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2023

He saw enough in her face to impel him to take her hand and hold it while he said his lingering good night “Will you go to the races again?” he asked.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

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

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

What is it that impels Scarry to go there?

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2022

Your attitude now impels me to say that.

From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman

Reductions in federal subsidies have impelled universities to cut Ph.D. admissions in programs that enroll few undergraduates, meaning there’s less demand for graduate student labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

What impelled him, and what does it mean?

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025

At Lawson’s urging, they refused bail, which impelled hundreds of other students to join the crusade against segregated interstate travel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2024

His frustration and anger at the press, however, impelled him to buck convention by suing newspaper owners — allegedly against the wishes of his father, now King Charles III.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2023

There was no noon meal on account of that night’s big Saturday supper, the smell of which impelled the students to the barbecue pits.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

“Get at Me Dog” is an impelling and incendiary piece of music, like four minutes of a bomb going off.

From Slate ● Apr. 11, 2021

In a flash, rain poured and wind whipped at once, blowing trash onto the field and impelling a rapid response from the grounds crew.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2019

Throughout the set, Mr. Raghavan fed his own chancy energy into the mix, playing lines of lacing beauty and impelling the others to put their weight forward, onto the balls of their feet.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2017

He was excited and something was impelling him to become more excited.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright