Example sentences for: repellent

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

  • Which is the opposite in every way of In the Company of Men , a dazzling, repellent exercise in which the case against men is closed before it's opened.

  • New York 's David Denby adds to the ruckus over In the Company of Men : It "is a repellent experience--a schematic, coldly cynical work that pretends to expose coldness and cynicism."

  • Piper auritum leaf juice is applied topically to remove ticks and head lice in El Salvador and Ecuador respectively [ 92 ] . In Guatemala, Panama and Columbia the juice of crushed leaves of Piper species or the decoction of roots are drunk or used in baths for snakebites or rubbed onto the body as a snake repellent [ 63 95 139 ] . In Eastern Nicaragua and Jamaica Piper hispidum is used in remedies for colds, fever, stomach aches and for aches and pains [ 116 53 ] . In Trinidad, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean countries Piper amalgo leaf infusions are used as ritual baths or baths to perfume the body [ 52 16 ] .

  • My family has helped build two churches in China, my daughter is from Yangzhou, and I doubt that anyone has devoted more editorial space to China's repellent one-child policy.

  • You mentioned yesterday about being filled with repellent hatred and loathing?


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