OBLIGATORY in a Sentence

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Example sentences for OBLIGATORY, such as:

1. It is obligatory to remove your shoes before entering.
2. The college authorities have now made these classes obligatory.
3. It is obligatory on every citizen to safeguard our great motherland.
4. It is obligatory for companies to provide details of their industrial processes.
5. It is obligatory that books borrowed from the library be returned within two weeks.

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 Meanings and Examples of OBLIGATORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
obligatory
 a.  morally or legally constraining; required; binding
Classic Sentence:
1  He did not know that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs' payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work had been increased by a half.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
2  Equality has an organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O...
Example Sentence:
1  When an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to is are also lawful and obligatory.
2  Most women will be offered an ultrasound scan during pregnancy, although it's not obligatory.
3  It is obligatory on every citizen to safeguard our great motherland.
4  The college authorities have now made these classes obligatory.
5  It is obligatory for companies to provide details of their industrial processes.
6  It is obligatory to remove your shoes before entering.
7  It is obligatory that books borrowed from the library be returned within two weeks.