How to Use repulsion in a Sentence

repulsion

noun

• I read about what happened with a feeling of shock and repulsion.
• She felt a repulsion for politics.
• My repulsion towards my scars didn't stem from any sadness that my arm was gone.
  — Allure, 19 Apr. 2022
• Throughout the show, there’s a push-pull of attraction and repulsion.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Despite my immediate repulsion to the song, it’s been stuck in my head my whole life.
  — Amy Wolff, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• In fact, this repulsion is the reason atoms don’t collapse, the reason matter is hard.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2021
• Anger, fear, and repulsion are so often compelled by objects of desire.
  — Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
• Preserve the good oils, and increase your dependence on it, instead of your repulsion to oil as a whole.
  — Adam Hurly, GQ, 8 Aug. 2017
• That, in a nutshell, is both the attraction and the repulsion of the impostor.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 26 Feb. 2017
• But a free Crimea is just as inevitable as the repulsion of Russian troops from Kyiv.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• Max is relieved when this part is done, even as his expression never wavers from slapstick repulsion.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• But now the pull is coupled with a powerful push — in other words, repulsion — that keeps us from being seduced.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
• This attraction or repulsion is a minimal sense of wanting or not wanting.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024
• This ensures that the stator and rotor plates now have the same charge, converting the attraction to a repulsion.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 July 2024
• No scales fell from his eyes, no repulsion at witnessing babies being torn apart by dogs awakened his consciousness.
  — Greg Grandin september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
• Murphy’s live-in-concert repulsion fantasias belie a tenderness that resides at the core of some of his work.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• But more often than not Ethridge knows how to make the balance between attraction and repulsion tip in his favor.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• First, any single dark matter particle has to have just the right self-repulsion to generate neutron stars with the right mass range.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• Only the quantum repulsion between neutrons staves off a final collapse into a black hole.
  — Joshua Sokol, Science | AAAS, 8 Apr. 2021
• Apple’s songs invite us back to the euphoria of attraction and the nausea of repulsion.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• But as emissions rise, the killjoys are resorting to shame and repulsion as weapons against environmental evils.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• There does seem to be a special, visceral repulsion among some voters toward the president.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 26 Dec. 2018
• But your, your thing with the Plücker coordinates, and the… does the zero mean that that’s the analog of repulsion.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026
• In one sad scene, Floyd and Carol begin to make love, only for Carol to pull away in repulsion.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
• This force has to be stronger than the electric repulsion between the various quarks, otherwise the proton would simply fly apart.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• There’s something delicious about his cocktail of self-pity and self-loathing, which can arouse both the viewer’s repulsion and compassion.
  — Susie Goldsbrough, The Atlantic, 28 Dec. 2025
• The phrase, which is onomatopoeic, refers to a feeling of repulsion that suddenly crops up with a romantic partner.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• The use of King's sermon to sell trucks did not sit well with many viewers, who voiced reactions ranging from uneasiness to repulsion.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2018
• Despite the title, Chihaya’s memoir doesn’t argue that books are worthy of repulsion.
  — Kristen Martin, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2025
• The push-pull tension between attraction and repulsion compels reflection on the ways in which fashion is inevitably about more than clothes.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022