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How to use repulsed in a sentence

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He seems both attracted and repulsed by the exoticized version of her that he imagines.
Apparently, bygones haven't been gone by for long enough yet, and the attempt was repulsed.
Like rubbernecking at the scene of a fatal accident, I am repulsed yet, at the same time, I cannot seem to pull my eyes away.
Robinson left the door to lean over the table, apparently not as repulsed by the gory mess as his partner clearly was.
If you appear stiff, reserved, timid and insecure, they will feel repulsed.
His point was that Bourbons would take any votes they could get, but they were socially repulsed by the poor, both African American and white.
They'll see the yucky black emptiness inside, and they'll be repulsed and run away.
Unlike Estonians and Latvians, Lithuanian tribes united and repulsed the German crusaders.
Lotus had been repulsed when the poor fool approached her to grab her colorful robe.
I was impatient with her politics and repulsed by her unevolved narcissism.
Indeed, Catherine is repulsed by David's African stories, and her hysterical outburst against them is imbued with racist assumptions.
I'm sure Straw Dogs is rather unpopular with the feminist community, and I find myself repulsed by the film for the same reason.
I have seen your intended involved in numerous situations that have repulsed me and that are too shocking for me to relate on paper.
Oh how it so repulsed her, her father tee-heeing ever so loudly in the room next to hers.
Every Zulu thrust was repulsed by soldiers literally fighting for their lives.
She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner.
In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
Giamatti doesn't want any part of the carousing, mostly because he thinks it will lead to more rejection, but he pretends he's morally repulsed.
One is the audience of people who are obviously repulsed by these sort of images and people meant to be scared by it and that's the reason they're putting this tape up.
The case has gripped and repulsed the nation in equal measure.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This was intensified when Burnside was so bloodily repulsed at Fredericksburg at the close of the first week of the session.
Louis calmly explained the incapability of Ceuta to defend itself, should the sally be repulsed by the enemy.
If I did not fear to be indiscreet, I would ask you what kind of thing this succubus was, whose attack you repulsed.
He founded a new city called Lukhaia, and appears to have repulsed a Kassite raid.
That attack had been repulsed with slaughter, and the brigade was concentrated.
The tidal wave of progress, once repulsed, is not likely to subside forever.
I chid her for her awkwardness in waiting on me, and repulsed her at every step.
In the West, the first teachers of the manichaean theology had been repulsed by the people, or suppressed by the prince.
They held up a train in Tulare county and killed a fireman, but were repulsed.
The British made an assault on the twenty-eighth, and were repulsed with loss.
They followed down to the boat, where they were repulsed by the arquebusiers.
The guerrillas, repulsed by the Americans, fled upon the contras, whereat the Americans swept them both back indiscriminately.
It had patriotically offered its plant and services to the War Office, and had been repulsed with contumely and ignominy.
The Russians also occupied Sviniuchy and repulsed the enemy's counterattack.
Frantically she tried to encircle him with her arms, but Herrick repulsed her.
German infantry on the morning of the 5th ventured an assault and were repulsed by blithering fire.
Wasn't it from the Szekler Stone that our fathers repulsed the whole Mongolian horde?
She had not been there many hours when, in a sortie, the French were repulsed.
This then was discovered as I have said, and the attacks were repulsed by the men of Barca.
As the smoke slowly eddied away, the youth saw that the charge had been repulsed.
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