Example sentences for: repulsed

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

  • Most critics, such as the Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan, are repulsed, calling it "a cinema of humiliation, embarrassment, and misery."

  • 2 Are women by nature shrinking violets, innately repulsed by war, incapable of violence?

  • Backed by Pakistan, Pathan tribesmen invaded Kashmir in 1947 to force the issue, but were soon repulsed by Indian troops flown in when the maharaja hastily acceded to India.

  • In 1588, Philip II prepared to invade England, only to be repulsed when the English navy destroyed Spain’s previously invincible Armada.

  • Kennedy being elevated, for better or for worse, to the role of standard-bearer for a generation repulsed by America's imperial presumptions, the antagonists became symbols for opposing forces larger than either man could discern.


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