Committing many insolences on shore, the negroes rose upon them and compelled them to retire to their ship, when they had fired one village, and killed many of the natives.
At Cuba they landed, and surprising some hunters, compelled them to sell them food, uncertain whether France and Spain were at war or peace.
When Roberts fell the men deserted their quarters and fell into a torpor, till their mainmast being shot away compelled them to surrender.
Those who knew him at once declared that his former practices compelled them confidently to predict that he had gone among the mountains to turn the right wing of the Austrians, and raise the country in insurrection in their rear.
At all those points our troops sustained the attacks of the enemy with admirable firmness and coolness, and, by fighting with the bravery of veteran soldiers, compelled them to make a precipitate retreat.
The pirates, who were on the poop, now attacked the English, who, being by this time all armed, compelled them to cry for quarter.
For some time, however, the Frenchmen who had fled below kept up a sharp fire of musketry, but the English, firing down in return, compelled them to yield.
But Marlborough told them that circumstances compelled them to fight, and the sooner the better.
But in 1654, Parliament having humbled the Dutch, compelled them to pay a balance of damages of eighty-five thousand pounds and three thousand six hundred pounds to the heirs of the murdered men at Amboyna.
He arrested them, and by threats of immediate execution, compelled them to show him all the letters they received, and to return answers dictated by him.
Ye became weary of decemvirs; we compelled themto resign the office.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compelled them" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
