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.
But to exchange public greetings with a mass murderer accords him a legitimacy which should repel most people."
In another enclosure, the stones wound in white cloth with a yellow sash come from Gunung Rinjani, and Chinese Taoists have put mirrors there to repel the malevolent spirits.
Two and 15 households in Kisumu and Malindi, respectively reported burning of organic material to repel mosquitoes.
Director Simon West ( Con Air ) "shows a knack for underutilizing good actors while pumping up the story's gratuitously ugly side" (Maslin, the New York Times ). And in his scathing review in the Wall Street Journal , Morgenstern probably doesn't realize that his line describing the film as "soft-core porn in an expensive star package" is likely to attract rather than repel the target audience.