Compelling has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love. | |
| 2. | That's a very compelling story. | |
| 3. | I have never seen a compelling argument for religion. If I ever saw one I'd convert. | |
| 4. | Fashion is a compelling subject for documentaries. | |
| 5. | Fashion is a compelling subject for documentaries; few subjects are so enticingly visual. | |
| 6. | Observations collected around the world provide significant, clear, and compelling evidence that global average temperature is much higher, and is rising more rapidly, than anything modern civilization has experienced, with widespread and growing impacts. | |
| 7. | I have known a rogue make a better defence than an innocent man could have done in the same circumstances of suspicion. Having no consciousness of innocence to support him, such a fellow applies himself to all the advantages which the law will afford him, and sometimes—if his counsel be men of talent—succeeds in compelling his judges to receive him as innocent. | |
| 8. | Tom has a compelling reason for avoiding Mary. | |
| 9. | He has a compelling reason for avoiding her. | |
| 10. | She has a compelling reason for avoiding him. |