compulsive - use in sentences

Preposition: as

  • phantasising: The romanticizing of sorrow is just as compulsive as the phantasising on forbidden themes during the stage of catharsis.

Adjective modifier

  • adrenaline-fueled: Had Rounders picked up impish grinnolan is is it to the adrenaline-fueled compulsives.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • find: And if you find the telly version compulsive, the game should set your adrenaline pumping too.

Modifies a noun

  • gambler: My father has been a compulsive gambler for my whole life.
  • liar: I was happy to leave the compulsive liar behind.
  • gambling: At five coins on compulsive gambling found people in.
  • eater: A compulsive eater will have a sense of being out of control.
  • disorder: I think he's got some sort of compulsive eating disorder, brought on by boredom.
  • viewing: The series is becoming compulsive viewing for lovers of car crashes.

Modifying Another Word

  • almost: We need people, possessions and something to do, in an almost compulsive way.
  • so: Something so compulsive that it can embrace your dreams, cut short your thoughts and weave itself into your daily chores.
  • totally: Price: £ 12 Chess Drafts Backgammon Compilation - Unbranded All three well-known board games on one cart - pure simple and totally compulsive.
  • oddly: The cumulative effect is completely unexpected, unsettling and yet somehow oddly compulsive.
  • strangely: Going on a bit too much... But then, there's something strangely compulsive about the style.
  • utterly: Incredibly simple yet utterly compulsive game based upon the age-old game of stone skipping.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Cleaning, washing and ironing are things she became compulsive with.
  • recover: And regular slots district of columbia querying recovering compulsive because they are.

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