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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
  • The man who was shocked was taken to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan with life-threatening injuries.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • But something fascinating was happening behind the scenes, coinciding with the disaster that had sent Olin overseas and left her bandmates, Augustin and Nathan Slone — located in New York City — shocked.
    Julius Miller, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • There are a lot of reasons to be disgusted with the Cowboys for their season-opening stink fest.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Decent law-abiding Israelis living in Judea/Samaria are also disgusted by behavior of the few who violate civil law & Torah by violence & lawlessness.
    Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 5 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
  • As the years go by, babies are born, parents get sick and die, careers are started then ended, wives and husbands are thwarted, and, eventually, sheets are strewn and booties are tapped.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Last August, more than 360 people recently got sick after eating free MBG school lunches in Sragen, Central Java.
    Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • In July, Taylor Farms de Mexico recalled all iceberg lettuce sourced in Mexico from 27 states following a cyclospora outbreak that has sickened 18,445 people since the beginning of May.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Thousands of people were sickened by foodborne illnesses this summer.
    Dian Zhang, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The university initially resisted the financial institution’s requests to open an account and to provide personal information of its then-chief financial officer, but ultimately gave in, Kraus said.
    Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Then, his administration sent letters and filed lawsuits to push states to run their sensitive voter data through the tool – a prospect some states have agreed to, but many have resisted to keep their residents’ personal information secure.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 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
  • Mansur, who desperately longs to be reunited with his own mother, is appalled.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s ongoing satirical series at first appalled many viewers with its resolute political incorrectness and penchant for four-letter words from the mouths of babes, and that was nowhere more evident than in Cartman himself.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Repulsed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/repulsed. Accessed 19 Sep. 2026.

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