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Example sentences for: repel

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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.
The scent would repel all biting insects in the area.
But to exchange public greetings with a mass murderer accords him a legitimacy which should repel most people."
I suppose that is true--although I confess an occasional difficulty with important artists whose personalities repel me.
Remarkably, Poland retained enough military might to repel the Ottoman Turks in their advance through the Balkans.