REPEL in a Sentence
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51 example sentences for REPEL, such as:
1. No human can repel a firm hope.
2. Two positive charges repel each other.
3. Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
4. Atoms attract each other and atoms repel one another.
5. This coat has a special surface that repels moisture.
2. Two positive charges repel each other.
3. Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
4. Atoms attract each other and atoms repel one another.
5. This coat has a special surface that repels moisture.
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Meanings and Examples of REPEL
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repel
v. fill with distaste
v. reject outright and bluntly
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1 Your commandant is a brave man, and well qualified to repel my assault.
2 It may be very true, sir; but we are now obliged to repel art by art.
3 But the shock was insufficient to repel the impetus of the charge.
4 In the contrary case, Your Majesty, I shall see myself forced to repel an attack that nothing on my part has provoked.
5 Atoms attract each other and atoms repel one another.
6 Yet gallant Turnus in unfailing confidence will prevent them on the shore and repel their approach to land.
7 Haste away, and carry to Turnus my last message; to take my place in battle, and repel the Trojans from the town.
8 She drew herself into an attitude not of defiance, but of resolution, as one that would avoid provoking assault, yet was resolute to repel it, being offered, to the utmost of her power.
9 I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
10 Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
11 Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
12 The minister tremulously, but decidedly, repelled the old man's arm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
Context Highlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
13 I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.
14 He simply seemed to be slightly displeased with her for that first midnight conversation, which she had repelled.
15 After drinking a few sips she glanced at him, and by his expression, she saw clearly that he was repelled by her hand, and her gesture, and the sound made by her lips.
Example Sentence:
1 No human can repel a firm hope.
2 Two positive charges repel each other.
3 They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
4 Similar poles of magnets repel each other, and opposite poles attract.
5 Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other.
6 Thus ideas already in consciousness always repel the entry uncompatible idea and make entry of the congenial idea.
7 Troops repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.
8 The sheep use it as a natural water repellent, which is lovely for them, but I found it to be sticky, oily.
9 The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
10 This coat has a special surface that repels moisture.
11 For example, the defense of the skunk is a diabolic odor which repels its enemies.