How to Use repulse in a Sentence

repulse

verb

• The troops repulsed the attack.
• The moldy bread repulsed him.
• He repulsed all attempts to help him.
• I was repulsed by the movie's violence.
• And our task is to survive the first two or three weeks, not to break down and to repulse the enemy.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• By the way, the van could use a good cleaning; we're almost repulsed enough to stop eating in there.
  — Geoff Kirsch, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
• At the time, director Adrian Lyne was repulsed at the idea of changing the ending.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 29 Mar. 2017
• Before a female rat becomes pregnant, the smells and sounds of pups repulse her.
  — Teal Burrell, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2019
• Gray, white and wet, an image of the brain by itself can repulse more often than inspire.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 31 July 2017
• At least, that's her idea, but Kevin is completely repulsed by crashing the event yet ends up crying in the kitchen with the widow.
  — Laura Cohen, Redbook, 2 Nov. 2016
• Ants are repulsed by these scents and won't dare cross these natural borders.
  — Melanie Mannarino, Redbook, 18 June 2010
• The truth is that most voters appear to be repulsed by extreme right politics of this sort.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• From rats and giant spiders, to hoards of cult-like clowns moving in unison, AHS: Cult is aiming to shock and repulse.
  — Amy MacKelden, Marie Claire, 19 Aug. 2017
• Katharina is repulsed to see them together, and breaks the news about to Martha that she and Jonas are related.
  — Abbey Maxbauer, refinery29.com, 25 June 2019
• While some people love a good pickle on their sandwich or deep fried dipped in ranch, others are repulsed by the salty vegetable.
  — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2018
• And the regime’s use of excessive force and mass detentions had repulsed all but its staunchest allies in the region.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 12 Aug. 2017
• Those troops were repulsed and later fled back into Belarus.
  — Francesca Ebel and Natalia Abbakumova, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023
• The best by far is the strategy the U.S. is pursuing, to support Ukraine to repulse a Russian invasion.
  — WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• Weeks later, Vox’ Zack Beauchamp wrote: Trump’s assaults on democracy have, for the most part, been repulsed.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
• When someone who once smelled like home suddenly repulses you with his lack of a feces scent?
  — Cirocco Dunlap, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• In 1896 Ethiopian forces had repulsed Italian invaders at the Battle of Adwa.
  — Colin Grant, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
• So, to those voters more repulsed by Biden’s age than Trump’s deeds: Is your memory really that short?
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
• The military said in a statement Sunday their troops repulsed both attacks.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• Men in power are not detecting when a woman is anxious or even repulsed.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2018
• This was the pattern all the day long: skirmishes, gassings, and grenadings, the Gilets repulsed at one spot only to rally again and attack at another.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's magazine, 22 July 2019
• The onslaught was repulsed by a combination of warships and fighter jets.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• Starting in the brutal Middle Ages as a fortress to repulse attacks by the rival Orsini family, the palace grew slowly.
  — Jason Horowitz, Town & Country, 24 Sep. 2019
• The thought of adopting a perennial contender, like Chicago or Pittsburgh, repulsed him.
  — New York Times, 6 May 2018
• This simple measure could produce electric fields strong enough to repulse sawfish and other sharks or rays.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
• An ex-girlfriend, for example, was repulsed by his alarm that the Sept. 11 attacks might jeopardize funding for his movie project.
  — Adelle Waldman, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024