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.

  • The Post tells us that Tyson's prepared statement lasted "4 minutes 16 seconds," and includes the detail that "President Clinton, an admitted boxing fan, expressed revulsion at Tyson's actions in the ring."

  • Oskar possesses an adult awareness from birth but develops a powerful revulsion against the petit-bourgeois society in which he finds himself, so at the age of 3 he decides to stop growing up.

  • 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."

  • But the bloodshed by speeders doesn't evoke the same emotional revulsion as the bloodshed by drunks.


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