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:

But to exchange public greetings with a mass murderer accords him a legitimacy which should repel most people."
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."
I suppose that is true--although I confess an occasional difficulty with important artists whose personalities repel me.
The group wants the treaty to allow people to spray small amounts of DDT on walls indoors to repel disease-carrying mosquitoes.
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.