How to Use repulse in a Sentence

repulse

verb

• The troops repulsed the attack.
• The moldy bread repulsed him.
• He repulsed all attempts to help him.
• I was repulsed by the movie's violence.
• Ants are repulsed by these scents and won't dare cross these natural borders.
  — Melanie Mannarino, Redbook, 18 June 2010
• Plenty of people bought it, plenty were repulsed by it.
  — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 June 2026
• And our task is to survive the first two or three weeks, not to break down and to repulse the enemy.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2022
• By the way, the van could use a good cleaning; we're almost repulsed enough to stop eating in there.
  — Geoff Kirsch, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Sep. 2017
• Gray, white and wet, an image of the brain by itself can repulse more often than inspire.
  — Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 31 July 2017
• Before a female rat becomes pregnant, the smells and sounds of pups repulse her.
  — Teal Burrell, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2019
• The truth is that most voters appear to be repulsed by extreme right politics of this sort.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• Men in power are not detecting when a woman is anxious or even repulsed.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2018
• When someone who once smelled like home suddenly repulses you with his lack of a feces scent?
  — Cirocco Dunlap, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Ron spends a lot of time bouncing around the web, fascinated and repulsed in equal measure.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Oct. 2025
• While some people love a good pickle on their sandwich or deep fried dipped in ranch, others are repulsed by the salty vegetable.
  — Madison Roberts, PEOPLE.com, 16 May 2018
• This simple measure could produce electric fields strong enough to repulse sawfish and other sharks or rays.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2012
• Charlie, though, is trying to keep them out of a country that thoroughly repulses him.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
• He could be repulsed (for reasons beyond his reach) by your natural, unshowered smell.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The military said in a statement Sunday their troops repulsed both attacks.
  — Fox News, 4 June 2018
• The onslaught was repulsed by a combination of warships and fighter jets.
  — Abigail Hauslohner, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024
• Carol is repulsed by how regressive this sounds and nearly loses her temper for an alien-shaking third time in the episode.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2025
• And the regime’s use of excessive force and mass detentions had repulsed all but its staunchest allies in the region.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 12 Aug. 2017
• At least, that's her idea, but Kevin is completely repulsed by crashing the event yet ends up crying in the kitchen with the widow.
  — Laura Cohen, Redbook, 2 Nov. 2016
• Lavelle’s straight-on shot caromed off a wall player’s head, repulsing Seattle’s final charge.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
• At the time, director Adrian Lyne was repulsed at the idea of changing the ending.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 29 Mar. 2017
• One was repulsed by the obvious and blatant lies, yet simultaneously amazed at just how dumb these people seem to be.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2023
• Flies don’t like the scent of rosemary, but rosemary plants can also be used to repulse mosquitoes, cabbage loopers, and bean beetles.
  — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 June 2026
• The film is somehow sparse and flamboyant at the same time; viewers may feel conflicting impulses of being charmed and repulsed.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Sigmund Freud believed that every crush has a strand of disgust, that people are attracted to what repulses them.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2026
• Floyd, distraught by his own physical failures, is nevertheless repulsed by the sight of Carol in her big, burly ump gear.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026