How To Use Compulsively In A Sentence
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Thetans have been compulsively recording intergalactic history for several quadrillion years.
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A strain of mutant mice groom compulsively till they seriously injure themselves.
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I have been credited with the accolade of the most compulsively depressive blog and that is not without reason.
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For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has said of his pun-heavy brand of comedy: If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
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James stood up and wiped his hands on his jeans nervously and compulsively, as if trying to disassociate himself from death.
CLASS TRIP
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A dapper man with an aristocratic air, he was boyishly handsome, compulsively social and intensely creative.
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It is languid, thought provoking and compulsively interesting, but, much like its poster, it won't be the most exciting film at the multiplex.
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At 16, Anneth compulsively sneaks out at night to flirt and drink at honky-tonks, dancing to the latest songs by Elvis, Patsy Cline, and Sam Cooke.
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The reasons why are superbly marshalled in this meticulously researched, compulsively readable book.
Times, Sunday Times
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James stood up and wiped his hands on his jeans nervously and compulsively, as if trying to disassociate himself from death.
CLASS TRIP
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She'd compulsively acquire things - if she got a hold of anything she just squirreled it away.
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The ham-handed director was Susanna White, who intercuts compulsively, whether or not anything is happening.
'Last Dancer': Ultimately on Point
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They attribute his stealing of petty items to an untreated and undiagnosed case of kleptomania, a psychiatric condition that causes a person to steal compulsively.
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Powell, like the mountain men, was compulsively drawn to the frontier.
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One pilot is depicted as a video nut, compulsively filming everything in the attack with a wind-up Kodak, and no one bothers to tell him to throw away the damn camera.
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In the interests of scientific thoroughness, we had four small eats and one antipasto between two adults and a 12-year-old, and they ranged from the good (marinated octopus, chicken liver crostini) to the sublime: prosciutto so delicate it was, according to my son, "like air", a compulsively eatable dish of fried courgettes, and a sensationally good stew of squid, potatoes, chickpeas and chilli.
Restaurant: Tinello, London SW1
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Once equality becomes thinkable, that is, once the notion that inequalities are eternal and unchangeable is shattered, people begin to seek equality relentlessly and compulsively.
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Six volumes of memoir sit on my desk, of which two are outstanding, and all compulsively readable.
Times, Sunday Times
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I spent the evening going through the box, which is a replica of the thousands of boxes of souvenirs and ephemera he compulsively saved.
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As if to bring competing energies under control, Blue Blood 's abiding tone is almost compulsively apothegmatic.
A Quietly Remarkable Memoir Walks a Beat From H.U. to NYPD
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Sterne was almost compulsively attentive to page layout and typography, going so far as to specify the length of each dash in printer's ems.
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The deserts are similarly cloying and sticky, although a couple of them (the passion-fruit-meringue pie and a towering, three-decker coconut flan) are compulsively edible.
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In her youth she seemed to dissipate almost compulsively.
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So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy.
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Jung believed that the more secular, materialistic, and compulsively extraverted our civilization became, the greater the unhappiness, senselessness and aimlessness of our lives.
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Today men across the land continue to hunt compulsively, despite a possibly declining need or appetite for the available game.
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Ferns brushed her ankles and burs snagged her skirt as she stumbled along compulsively.
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You know the ones -- the naggy notes, the worried pleas, the guilt-grams, the ALL CAPS missives, the technologically panicked cries for help and the e-mails from moms who compulsively forward dire health warnings to their kids.
‘Oh, Mom!’
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Today men across the land continue to hunt compulsively, despite a possibly declining need or appetite for the available game.
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Why do we compulsively become impatient with the slowpoke in front of us?
HOW EVIL WORKS
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We wore wild clothes, we grew our hair down to our shoulders, we smoked marijuana and popped tabs of acid, and we compulsively questioned authority.
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Add to that the bunch of decerebrated zombies who keep hitting compulsively on the foreigners, and the situation is sometime a bit weird.
Women and Marriage in Taiwan
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Every page is compulsively readable, and usually says something very funny, even if it happens to be wrong.
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I'm wearing a t-shirt, a shirt and a fleecy top and finding myself pigging out compulsively on carbs.
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I'm a mum for goodness sake, I'm supposed to wear baggy cardies and compulsively mispronounce pop stars' names.
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A compulsive overeater (binge-eater) is an individual who compulsively eats but does not purge and usually becomes overweight.
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Avon was compulsively focused on long-term business plans.
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he cleaned his shoes compulsively after every walk
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The elder of the two always went compulsively for seafood, especially crustacean.
DISPLACED PERSON
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‘We appear to be, my father and I, compulsively uncommunicative but articulate,’ she says when I ask her about this statement.
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The gunner is a comic nut and draws compulsively--his drawings are all over the plane.
Yes.
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An eyewitness account of the excesses of the 1970s rock scene, this memoir is compulsively readable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps one day we will be able to identify a gene that drives people to compulsively kill.
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John is compulsively neat and clean, he's terrified of germs.
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There would be nothing more intrusive and irritating than watching someone compulsively flick between channels at a distance (except perhaps being in the room with them as they did so).
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Burstein frolics compulsively for "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues" as a pair of doxies chirp alongside him and Raines top-hat-and-cane's it with the company on "Live, Laugh, Love.
David Finkle: First Nighter: "Follies" 2011 a Smash Hit
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"Stop compulsively lying to me, butthead," obviously didn't work.
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This is thrilling stuff; compulsively readable and abundantly full of ideas.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are, of course extremes when it comes to lying and you may have heard of the terrible plight of people with Munchausen's Syndrome or factitious disorder where people lie compulsively about illnesses that they know they do not have.
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The organization that compulsively seeks to minimize the costs of its actions is for ever at odds with the reality of its performance.
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Farber, too, studied the past compulsively—and the episode that pivotally fascinated him was the story of the national polio campaign.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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James stood up and wiped his hands on his jeans nervously and compulsively, as if trying to disassociate himself from death.
CLASS TRIP
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Obviously to work as she has done, some disinhibition is needed, but this can be a position the artist assumes rather than because they are naturally or compulsively disinhibited.
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He compulsively records his day in the form of geological maps, so he can go back and look for systems and patterns.
Times, Sunday Times
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A strain of mutant mice groom compulsively till they seriously injure themselves.
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The novel proper features a compulsively wisecracking, self-aware narrator.
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Sterne was almost compulsively attentive to page layout and typography, going so far as to specify the length of each dash in printer's ems.
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Their objective will be to decide which is the most compulsively readable and unputdownable.
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For a player regularly accused of taking the circuitous route rather too often on the pitch, he is compulsively candid off it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Power -- government, corporate, even media power -- works compulsively to reseize control of the narrative.
Merrill Cole: WikiLeaks and David Wojnarowicz: A Perspective from Berlin
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‘I would kill time swatting the flies,’ says Li, who also compulsively swept the floor of his cell.
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They were tasked with choosing the most compulsively readable, unputdownable of six shortlisted novels, which had been published in paperback, in English, in the last year.
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Joachim Kaiser, writing in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, feels that Breth totally missed the mark: ‘So soberingly artificial, so compulsively jaunty, unpoetic and empty.’
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John is compulsively neat and clean, he's terrified of germs.
