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repulsed

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verb

past tense of repulse

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of repulsed
Adjective
Regardless, men behaving in a repulsed or shocked way when a man dresses feminine or in women’s clothing is homophobic. — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 22 July 2026
Verb
Young people just aren’t interested, partly because they’re repulsed by bodily fluids. — Marta Balaga, Variety, 16 Sep. 2026 His recent comments didn’t favor the Browns fanbase, and many Cleveland fans seem viscerally repulsed by him. — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026 Most Americans are repulsed by the core ideas of radical leftists. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Philly may be shedding its second-fiddle status, but it remains entirely repulsed by frauds and underachievers. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 July 2026 Firstman’s debut directorial effort, Club Kid, shrewdly acknowledges those garish personality tics, which have both endeared and repulsed audiences. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026 Anyone who has worked in or observed the media industry for the last couple of decades will recognize and be repulsed by nepo-baby Jay, who is undeniably villainous. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 30 Apr. 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 Pheidippides, legendary Greek hēmerodromos, or courier, who is popularly believed to have run 40 km (about 25 miles) from the battlefield at Marathon to Athens in 490 bce, to report that the Athenians, in a single afternoon, had repulsed the first Persian invasion of Greece. — Gitanjali Roy, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for repulsed
Adjective
  • My conversations and research left me much less shocked at that statistic that had sent chills down my spine a few weeks prior.
    — Luba Kassova, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Katlar Parchman, 19, appeared shocked to be in the defendant's chair on Saturday.
    — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Janice was disgusted; Mary was emotionally devastated and financially ruined.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • That is, Lamashtu spoke out about something that angered and disgusted the divine patriarch, and she was cast down to earth.
    — Eleanor Johnson, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Some microbiomes attracted the skeeters; others repelled them.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The narrator, though curious to speak herself, is finally repelled.
    — Maya Binyam, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Along with missing guard Dru Smith (right calf strain) and two-way contract forward Keshad Johnson (right hamstring strain) for the second straight exhibition game, the Heat was also without guard Pelle Larsson (sick) on Thursday.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Two types of influenza — A and B — are responsible for the seasonal flu epidemics that make people sick, according to the California Department of Public Health.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Last week, ProPublica detailed the case of two girls severely sickened last year after consuming raw goat milk from an unregulated farm in southern California.
    — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The milk suspected to have sickened the girls didn’t come from one of the state’s dozen licensed farms.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Chen initially resisted the rainbow-like chromatic aberration familiar from other screen depictions of superpowers.
    — Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • That figure, which includes prices for groceries and food eaten away from home, suggests some restaurants and stores resisted passing along higher supply costs to shoppers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • The stench of corruption might become so overwhelming that a revolted electorate rejects the entire enterprise.
    — Walter Russell Mead, The Atlantic, 24 Jan. 2026
Verb
  • Once inside the industry, Roper was appalled by how airlines set prices.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Even if the company still had footage of what had happened, she was appalled by the idea of anyone watching it.
    — Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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“Repulsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repulsed. Accessed 17 Oct. 2026.

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