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How to use repulse in a sentence

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A true lady will always repulse familiarity or rudeness, either of speech or manner.
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their contempt.
We are loath to admit it, but we don't know how to deal with things that both attract and repulse us.
These films regale as they repulse, hitting the gag reflex and the funny bone simultaneously.
The muddy ground delayed them and gave the French gunners time to rally and repulse the first attack.
They actually repulse me so much that I seriously want to vomit if I so much as see one.
And if you need a whiney, loud-mouthed woman to repulse those pesky telemarketers, throw your little sis some cash.
That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
Despite this, the unit does manage to repulse the advancing rebel soldiers, leaving Henry feeling more demoralized than ever.
Even the thought of killing didn't repulse me the way it used to, although I still refrained from that particular method of retrieving my money.
His program of defensiveness postulated Soviet possession of a defensive capability sufficient to absorb and repulse an enemy blow.
Defensive security is defined as a sufficiency of military and economic potentials of the state to repulse possible threats to its independence and territorial integrity.
This fire or latent heat causes the atom to revolve and through the subsequent momentum to repulse other atoms.
We must do it in a way which does not repulse our Mediterranean partners but which invites them back into the fold.
Having got over the shock of the crisis, the authorities had to quickly think of ways in which to repulse any American land invasion of Canada.
Do they not understand that strong measures such as ground troops are needed in Kosovo to repulse the armies?
How did warring, factionalized city-states on the edge of the known world repulse the first superpower?
It has become increasingly clear that it is impossible to repulse the offensive launched against the working class without challenging the basis of the capitalist system.
Increase urine repulse, healer and restorer of the wounds and appeaser to spleen and liver inflammation.
Initially, their arrival seems to have been at the invitation of the Britons as mercenaries to repulse incursions by the Hiberni and Picts.
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Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg was followed by a discouraging retreat.
It cost her an effort to repulse him, and the effort was not very convincing.
What we afterwards alluded to as an attack was really an attempt at repulse.
Were these preparations for war, or for vengeance, or to repulse a threatened invasion?
She expostulated without struggling because it was hard for her to repulse him.
He named them Admiralty Islands, and after two attacks, found himself forced to employ fire-arms to repulse the natives.
At the same time there was not a suspicion of truculence or even repulse in his carriage.
Not all my kicks and cuffs and beatings had sufficed one whit to repulse him.
The main feature of the fighting was the charge and repulse of Pickett's Brigade.
The repulse of the assailants at the redan did not save Sebastopol for the Russians.
The repulse of our army at Fredericksburg will embolden them.
At this slight repulse the assailants instantly withdrew, and gradually the place became as still as before the sudden tumult.
She could feel its false precision, its intention, its repulse of her.
This repulse checked the designs of prevost on South Carolina.
So desperate was my case, I was resolved not to stop even at this repulse.
Soon afterwards he repeated his suggestion, and meeting with a little repulse, showed some symptoms of displeasure at my obduracy.
His repulse was complete and crushing and we saw no more of him that day.
He was stung by this repulse, and stood mortifying himself by thinking of it until he was disturbed by the entrance of a maid-servant.
Impeccably translated, Pedro de Jesus's latest collection will baffle, delight, and repulse.
It was not long ere he found him, foaming with indignation at a repulse he had anew sustained from the fair Jewess.
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