Example sentences for: repelled

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

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • The united countries defeated the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410 and repelled Germanic eastward expansion.

  • Beyond the theology lies the simple human fact that most Muslims, like most other human beings, are repelled by mass murder and barbarism whatever their justification.

  • 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.


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