Example sentences for: revulsion

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

  • In "Partial Truths in the Partial-Birth-Abortion Debate," Atul Gawande attempts to reduce our natural, profound revulsion at the thought of the procedures used in abortion to an aesthetic response: All abortions are "grotesque," or "gross."

  • Why is such a time-tested device viewed with such utter revulsion?

  • In the movie's prologue, he can hardly contain his delight that his son is set to marry the daughter of the local chief inspector, a man whose revulsion for this dark-skinned taxi driver with his cheap camera is manifest in every frozen half-smile.

  • 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.

  • It should evoke a sense of revulsion in any sensitive human being, and has no place in a civil society."


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