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."
Two and 15 households in Kisumu and Malindi, respectively reported burning of organic material to repel mosquitoes.
The group wants the treaty to allow people to spray small amounts of DDT on walls indoors to repel disease-carrying mosquitoes.
Remarkably, Poland retained enough military might to repel the Ottoman Turks in their advance through the Balkans.