Example sentences for: repelled

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

  • After allied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.

  • Boleslaw later repelled invasions from Otto’s successor and then sought Poland’s own expansion eastward; he eventually annexed parts of present-day Ukraine.

  • Evolution has programmed us to be positively interested in plants and animals, our food, and to be repelled by slimes and oozes, teeming with potentially harmful microbes.

  • With the revival of Nazi anti-Semitic terror in 1935, "large sections of the population were repelled by the Sturmer methods and refused to comply with demands to take action against the Jews."

  • Once it was known that the attack had been repelled, a gift of wine was sent out to Nelson (England was, after all, an important wine market) and a street was named Calle de Horacio Nelson in his honor!


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