REPULSION in a Sentence
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95 example sentences for REPULSION, such as:
1. Connie heard it all with deepening dismay and repulsion.
2. Your plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
3. He had to repulse the suggestion because it gave him no room to live.
4. Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effor.
5. Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
2. Your plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
3. He had to repulse the suggestion because it gave him no room to live.
4. Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effor.
5. Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
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Meanings and Examples of REPULSION
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repulsion
n. distaste; extreme aversion; act of driving back
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1 But as soon as she no longer saw him, she was aware of the spot on her hand that his lips had touched, and she shuddered with repulsion.
2 Yes, I have lost even my affection for my son, because he is associated with the repulsion I feel for you.
3 She played nervously with the tassel of her dressing-gown, glancing at him with that torturing sensation of physical repulsion for which she blamed herself, though she could not control it.
4 The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him.
5 Connie felt a sudden, strange leap of sympathy for him, a leap mingled with compassion, and tinged with repulsion, amounting almost to love.
6 He dreaded with a repulsion almost of death, any further close human contact.
7 Connie heard it all with deepening dismay and repulsion.
8 I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9 Something of repulsion, buried deep beneath her cold thinking, stirred faintly and then was stilled.
10 And, for her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie's face changing from fond love and trust to incredulous horror and repulsion.
11 As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.
12 Neither of them ever imagined that they were looked at with repulsion; if they had imagined it they would not have minded--so long as their superiors did not look at them in that way.
13 Pierre, coming out into the corridor, looked with pity and repulsion at the half-crazy old man.
14 Pierre was seized by a sense of horror and repulsion such as he had experienced when touching some nasty little animal.
15 She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.
Example Sentence:
1 Even defensive battles distressed her, for the repulsion of enemy forces is never accomplished bloodlessly.
2 Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
3 Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effect.
4 Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
5 Do not, for one repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effort.
6 Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
7 Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effor.
8 He had to repulse the suggestion because it gave him no room to live.
9 Your plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
10 In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive or repulsive forces on other materials.