Sample Sentences for
repulse
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

repulse as in:  repulsed by the terrible odor

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The smell of the spoiled food was enough to repulse anyone.
repulse = cause revulsion (disgust)
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    His rude and arrogant behavior tended to repulse potential friends and colleagues.
    repulse = to cause revulsion (distaste and aversion)
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    "Does it ...does it repulse you?" he asked nervously.  (source)
    repulse = disgust
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    I tried to make myself smile, but it only seemed to repulse her more.  (source)
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    If I ever let you see me in person, you would be repulsed.  (source)
    repulsed = disgusted
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    You repulse me.  (source)
    repulse = disgust
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    But while Thomas's touch now repulses me, I feel no revulsion toward Day.  (source)
    repulses = disgusts
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    He looked more repulsed by the second.  (source)
    repulsed = disgusted
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    That doesn't repulse you?  (source)
    repulse = disgust
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    And for some reason, the thought of our poem being traded repulses me.  (source)
    repulses = disgusted
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    Hating himself, repulsed by what he was doing, Harry forced the goblet back toward Dumbledore's mouth and tipped it, so that Dumbledore drank the remainder of the potion inside.  (source)
    repulsed = feeling revulsion (intense dislike)
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    This morning, when I went to see him after his repulse of Van Helsing, his manner was that of a man commanding destiny.†  (source)
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    I was curious about his life, not repulsed.  (source)
    repulsed = disgusted
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    Willingly would I now have gone and asked Mrs. Reed's pardon; but I knew, partly from experience and partly from instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with double scorn, thereby re-exciting every turbulent impulse of my nature.†  (source)
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repulse as in:  repulse the attack

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The army managed to repulse the enemy attack at the border.
repulse = force to move away
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    The force field generated by the device was designed to repulse any incoming projectiles.
    repulse = push away
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    Attack, counter-attack, charge, repulse—these are words, but what things they signify!  (source)
    repulse = force them to move back
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    I stagger back, repulsed by the warm, sticky spray.  (source)
    repulsed = driven back
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    'Keep your eft's fingers off; and move, or I'll kick you!' cried Heathcliff, brutally repulsing her.†  (source)
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    Illness repulses.  (source)
    repulses = drives people away
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    He tried to put his hand over it, but the light wall repulsed him.  (source)
    repulsed = pushed away
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    Fanny, meanwhile, vexed with herself for not having been as motionless as she was speechless, and grieved to the heart to see Edmund's arrangements, was trying by everything in the power of her modest, gentle nature, to repulse Mr. Crawford, and avoid both his looks and inquiries; and he, unrepulsable, was persisting in both.  (source)
    repulse = push back
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    The "Chapter of Repulsing Serpents" follows, then the "Chapter of Driving Away Apshait."†  (source)
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    Any look it receives is immediately repulsed, reflected back onto the earth, like a trick done with mirrors.  (source)
    repulsed = pushed away
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    I would reconcile him to life, but he repulses the idea.†  (source)
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    I hope with prayer to Zeus and other immortal gods we shall repulse the dogs of war and death brought on us in the black ships.  (source)
    repulse = push back
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    Then added, repulsing him with a languid movement— "You are all evil!"†  (source)
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    He reported that his regiment had been attacked by French cavalry and that, though the attack had been repulsed, he had lost more than half his men.  (source)
    repulsed = driven back
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