How to Use compulsory in a Sentence

compulsory

adjective

• When two viruses infect the same cell at the same time such swaps are more or less compulsory.
  — The Economist, 20 Aug. 2020
• The jerk wings are saucy, spicy, slippery and compulsory eating.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2021
• And now that video is all but compulsory, their podcast will stream on Netflix.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
• Rustin’s next-door neighbor thought they should be sent directly from school to compulsory work gangs.
  — George Packer, The Atlantic, 6 Nov. 2025
• In addition to the compulsory veil, women have to wear a closed overcoat that falls over the knees.
  — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 2 June 2018
• He also was charged a share of the group's compulsory gratuity.
  — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Zverev had given his window for that day in the morning and so was put out by being told that the test was compulsory.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 14 May 2025
• Being asked to be a groomsman doesn’t mean agreement is compulsory.
  — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
• August had come round once more with its compulsory lusciousness, its tang of cherries on the tongue.
  — Deborah Landau, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• In red zones, the authorities are able to make masks compulsory outdoors and close bar.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 28 Aug. 2020
• Simply sitting with the idea that death is compulsory and irreversible is too hard.
  — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
• Center-lock wheels are compulsory, for one, and the front and rear anti-roll bars are adjustable through three settings each.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2022
• There was, as well, beauty to behold, which is also compulsory in Mozart.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• The act itself—putting a record on to fill the room—felt significantly less compulsory to me.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2021
• In the old days, many people who didn’t want to wear the hijab kind of accepted the compulsory hijab, went along with it.
  — Karl Vick, Time, 29 Sep. 2022
• For men, answering this will be compulsory.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 23 Nov. 2025
• Zverev had given his window for that day and so was put out by being told that the test, outside of that window, was compulsory.
  — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 24 June 2026
• The effort would build on a push by two nearby schools to make teaching of the Land Wars compulsory.
  — Jamie Tarabay, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2019
• Massachusetts isn’t a right-to-work state, so more nurses means more members and more compulsory dues.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• Voter turnout was just 58%, even though voting is compulsory in Greece.
  — Eshe Nelson, Quartz, 8 July 2019
• The compulsory recall is one of the largest ever in New Zealand.
  — Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2018
• To beat a team like Gonzaga, on a night like this, an unbending resolve to win is compulsory.
  — Ryan Black, The Courier-Journal, 21 Nov. 2022
• South Korea has compulsory conscription, and almost all healthy men are required to serve time in the army.
  — Julia Hollingsworth, CNN, 21 Nov. 2019
• A couple of decades ago, sporting them was compulsory, a rule enforced with beatings by the Taliban.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2020
• The system is not compulsory, and so far only a fraction of the companies working on self-driving-car tech have signed up.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 16 June 2020
• Attendance to the march wasn’t compulsory for Kings players.
  — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 28 May 2026
• And, of course, the compulsory hijab has become a symbol of that struggle in a country where women can’t become judges.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
• The escort is not compulsory, and Britain has limited naval resources in the region.
  — Washington Post, 25 July 2019
• But the trial judge, not the jury, will rule on any compulsory changes for Meta at the trial’s second stage in May.
  — Peter Weber, TheWeek, 25 Mar. 2026
• More recently, the church was sued by a former employee over a policy of compulsory tithing.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2026