Example sentences for: repugnant

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

  • That Irish grain should have been exported while Irish people starved--for little other purpose but to hold down the price of grain on the English market--was as morally repugnant to contemporary observers as it is to modern ones.

  • That's a conclusion we liberals find repugnant, and it would be nice to avoid it.

  • Where the filmmakers are most comfortable is back in the studio, so they throw in Jay Leno, RuPaul, and a panel of repugnant pundits--Harry Shearer, Michael Moore, George Plimpton, and Arianna Huffington--to discuss the "Ed phenomenon."

  • Former Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder immediately called the subpoena "repugnant to the Bill of Rights" and "a scenario that belongs in Baghdad."

  • Policies to reduce repugnant workplace conditions—by U.S. standards—in developing nations that export apparel to the U.S. involve an even more complex range of issues.


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