Sample Sentences for
repulsive
(editor-reviewed)

repulsive as in:  she found him repulsive

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  • Maybe if I weren't so repulsive-looking—maybe if I were pretty like you—†  (source)
  • Kit recoiled, as much from his angry tone as from the repulsive words.†  (source)
  • My sister married the new king and my repulsive nephew will be king after him.†  (source)
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  • Their faces shone as if with fever, a repulsive sight.†  (source)
  • Yet for all their oddity they looked upon me like I was a creature of repulsion.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
  • In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • It was a repulsively girly thought, though, and I wasn't sure what dark corner of my mind it had come crawling out of.†  (source)
  • But he was aware that she, so long attuned to him, caught all his repulsions.†  (source)
  • There was something outrageous and repulsive in that despair suddenly.†  (source)
  • When his fingers close over the bare skin of my wrist, I feel nothing but repulsion.†  (source)
  • Perhaps this was due to the repulsiveness of the work; at any rate, the people who worked with their hands were a class apart, and were made to feel it.†  (source)
  • That repulsively exotic creature in his thick black body and the ridge of non-symmetrical hair running down his back.†  (source)
  • Monsignor called out the best that he had thought by question and suggestion, and Amory talked with an ingenious brilliance of a thousand impulses and desires and repulsions and faiths and fears.†  (source)
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