Example sentences for: repulsed

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

  • After all, in this piece the car-home-and-fire salesman turned global strategist describes the Gulf War as if it were a model of Clausewitzian clarity concerning ultimate goals and acceptable means, forgetting in the process that at the end of that war, the Bush/Powell/Schwarzkopf axis internally disagreed about war issues that had never been articulated for the American people: Should the U.S. destroy the Iraqi military, invade Baghdad, or topple Hussein even after Iraq was repulsed from Kuwait?

  • 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.

  • The Wall Street Journal runs an AP dispatch stating that the Chechens have "repulsed" Russian forces.

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

  • They were repulsed at Hispaniola by a strong Spanish force and decided to take Jamaica as a consolation prize.


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