How to Use compelling in a Sentence

compelling

adjective

• She had a compelling need to share what she had heard.
• I would need a very compelling reason to leave my job.
• The novel was so compelling that I couldn't put it down.
• He made a compelling argument.
• And that now is, by far, the most compelling part of the film.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 19 Feb. 2025
• And that, in part, is what made the strange sounds so compelling.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• And at the end of the day, there’s nothing more compelling than that.
  — Danielle Cohen, Glamour, 2 May 2025
• The result is one of the most compelling performances of the year.
  — Nick Clement, Variety, 4 Jan. 2024
• And, in each of the film’s most compelling scenes, also a plea: to save them.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 26 Jan. 2025
• When the drivers were on the course, the racing was compelling.
  — Jay Cohen, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2025
• The most compelling data, quotes, and insights from the field.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• Here’s a look at some of his most compelling tracks so far.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2022
• The Dodgers are locked in one of baseball’s most compelling races.
  — NBC News, 2 July 2021
• Still, the boxing is compelling, and so are the fighters.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
• So perhaps the most compelling bout of the weekend is ...
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2021
• That freedom is what made the gallery so compelling for artists.
  — Nina Raemont, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
• And the thing that was most compelling in some ways was the breathing behind it as well.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
• That’s saying something when one of the most compelling ones is shot in the head at the outset.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• The story is so compelling and so fun and so dark and twisted ...
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2022
• Will the show be compelling to someone who has never even touched the games?
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 13 Jan. 2023
• So in 2020, THR moved away from writing up the overnights in all but the most compelling of cases.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Nov. 2024
• And the agency has no compelling reason to keep standing in the way.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 12 June 2021
• Yet there are compelling reasons to stay in the market.
  — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Here are some of the most compelling photos of the performances so far.
  — CNN, 1 Aug. 2021
• But my eyes kept being drawn away from the food because the design of the room was so compelling.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Nov. 2022
• It’s part of what makes baseball so compelling, the different ways to do the same job.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• There was little of the tension that makes golf compelling.
  — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
• More:'Race Night' is a compelling story of a gritty sport in the heartland.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2021
• This season is way more spooky and eerie compared to the last, how does raising the horror aspect make season 2 more compelling to you as a fan and character?
  — Malik Peay, Essence, 5 Aug. 2025
• While the enormity of the cast means some of the characters inevitably go underdeveloped, performances are compelling across the board.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025