Example sentences for: revulsion

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

  • The daughter is frozen in fear when she enters the room; Lester's wife, who also apparently sees the body, is consumed with horror and revulsion at her own murderous intentions.

  • Referring in an editorial Thursday to the "firestorm of anger and revulsion" that had followed the recent bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the paper said that this "new crackdown, so late in the day, smacks of over-reaction."

  • The outrage it has prompted isn't the Puritan kind; it's more like legitimate revulsion at watching a blowhard pervert people's lives in the name of "larger dramatic truths."

  • It is not de rigueur for linguists or lexicographers to utter judgments about language, just as doctors are not supposed to react with revulsion should a patient reveal a particularly revolting affliction.

  • New York critics respond to the hit London play with either fulsome praise or revulsion.


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