How to Use compulsive in a Sentence

compulsive

adjective

• First, keep your nails trimmed short and replace nail-biting with another compulsive habit, like playing with a stress ball.
  — Jamie Ballard, Good Housekeeping, 4 May 2018
• Exercise for her body can help reduce this compulsive behavior.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, courant.com, 6 June 2018
• Soon enough, every strong negative emotion became a trigger for a compulsive episode.
  — Laura Dorwart, SELF, 14 May 2018
• At this point, there aren’t treatment options aside from online forums where players discuss their compulsive gaming.
  — Brittany Shoot, Fortune, 18 June 2018
• On one side are the compulsive clearers, who can’t abide the banners and bubbles designed to prod us into maximum smartphone hygiene.
  — Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• There’s no compulsive curation, meticulous editing, or veil of irony to consider—no vigilance required.
  — Lindsey Lanquist, SELF, 25 May 2018
• Just as substance addicts require increasingly strong hits to get high, compulsive gamblers pursue ever riskier ventures.
  — Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, 14 May 2018
• Most of her characters are awful yet sympathetic in their compulsive unburdenings.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• They're designed to provoke compulsive reward-seeking behavior.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 28 May 2018
• Those who deal with compulsive gambling are worried that a rapid expansion of sports betting in the U.S. could cause more people to develop gambling problems.
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 21 May 2018
• While many see the 56-year-old’s shift from comedy icon to activist painter jarring, the truth is that his life and career were built on an almost compulsive need to experiment and reinvent.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 6 June 2018
• Film noir tends to be about two things: compulsive love and the crimes that get in the way of it.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• This predilection points to a compulsive hold on the life force that had propelled her from the start.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• Greene was a compulsive gambler who shrugged off the loss of pot loads of money.
  — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• The key signs of CHS are regular pot use and compulsive bathing.
  — Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Resist the compulsive drive to grade the Cowboys draft more than a week before the class reports to The Star for practice.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 May 2021
• Remove the color—and therefore fun—from your screen to keep compulsive scrolling in check.
  — Cathryne Keller, SELF, 13 Aug. 2024
• But the compulsive workouts only left him more tired, more on edge.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2020
• There are compulsive shoppers who hoard things with the tags still on them (keep the tags on and sell it!) and buy multiple versions of the same thing.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2019
• Mazurek has found that adults with autism are more prone to compulsive video-game use than their typical peers.
  — Sarah Deweerdt, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2018
• Keep your crabby comments and compulsive shopping on the down-low — at least for those 10 days.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 20 Oct. 2023
• This sent me on a search to find the answers to two questions: Why are some people compulsive talkers?
  — Dan Lyons, Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• So there’s something kind of compulsive about her desire to teach these lessons, in this very structured way.
  — Emma Dibdin, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Dec. 2020
• Some of you may wonder how my wife puts up with living with a compulsive punster.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2022
• There were the compulsive purchases on QVC of beauty products that weren’t in short supply around the house.
  — Greg Swatek, baltimoresun.com, 17 May 2021
• But your wife’s compulsive smartphone use seems beyond the point of reason.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 26 June 2021
• Not everything has to be Rick and Morty; hell, even Rick and Morty’s compulsive meta-commentary can be too much.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Over the course of eight, two-hour episodes, viewers will take a look inside of the lives of those living with and suffering from compulsive hoarding.
  — oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2021
• Some people who take dopamine-increasing Parkinson’s drugs develop compulsive gambling or shopping habits—an issue of too much wanting.
  — Shayla Love, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
• TikTok uses an addictive content-recommendation system designed to keep minors on the platform as long as possible and as often as possible, despite the dangers of compulsive use.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024