Words similar to repel

Example sentences for: repel

How can you use “repel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Perfumes are supposed to attract, not repel (or so their makers would have us believe), and the name scarcely evokes the image of an attractant.
Interviewed later about the deaths of the Africans, Bin Ladin answered that "when it becomes apparent that it would be impossible to repel these Americans without assaulting them, even if this involved the killing of Muslims, this is permissible under Islam."
Two and 15 households in Kisumu and Malindi, respectively reported burning of organic material to repel mosquitoes.
I suppose that is true--although I confess an occasional difficulty with important artists whose personalities repel me.
In due course we wound up with the modern swimsuit and the respectable nearly naked nude, ratified for all time by the Miss America pageant and Sports Illustrated . In the beginning, though, a woman's bathing suit was designed to repel the avid male gaze.