Sample Sentences forrepulsegrouped 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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And for some reason, the thought of our poem being traded repulses me. (source)repulses = disgusted
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The thought repulsed me at the time, since we consider mice vermin, unless cooked. (source)
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That doesn't repulse you? (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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By throwing whatever we have that might confuse or distract, or maybe even repulse them, if that's even possible.† (source)
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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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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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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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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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He tried to put his hand over it, but the light wall repulsed him. (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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From the advantage we now possess, I think General Howe must be repulsed whenever he attacks, but should he be able to carry the island, it must be with so prodigious a loss that victory will be ruin. (source)repulsed = driven back
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