How To Use Repel In A Sentence

  • It also provides ample cushioning with shock-absorbing HydroFlow technology in the heel and forefoot, and has a water-repellant upper.
  • If they receive a second exposure with a low intensity light, developer anions adsorbed to the surface sensitivity centers effectively repel the photoelectrons so that surface latent image specks cannot form.
  • But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face. The Hidden Places
  • York were immediately on the back foot but repelled a series of short corners and managed to engineer a breakaway attack.
  • We take a sightseeing boat trip around the bay and get a glimpse of the smart new opera house which looks exactly like two durians - a very distinctive local fruit that tastes great but has a repellant smell.
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  • Attack after attack was repelled, tackle after tackle was made. Times, Sunday Times
  • To further clarify: I used my flame-thrower to repel representative Jason Chaffetz when I ran into him at the local Orem, UT Rudfuckers. Stuff We Did This Weekend
  • He doesn't have the build for the Jackie Chan stunts he uses to repel the onslaught of his friends in crime-fighting, and he doesn't bear himself with heroic presence.
  • You said ‘send conventional troops that he can only repel with his nuclear weapons, which will cause us to nuke him’.
  • The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
  • I could never get a decent swing with my left hand, but at best I would use it only to repel boarders.
  • I've used soapy water, ProTek, a citrus extract that repels insects, and diatomaceous earth applied while the foliage is wet. Seeking a tomato guru
  • These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
  • Ball after ball was lofted into the Colt goalmouth but time and again their defence came up trumps as they repelled attack after attack.
  • Essential oils from allspice, basil, cedar, cinnamon, citronella, garlic, geranium, lavender, pennyroyal, peppermint, pine, rosemary, and thyme have been reported to have repellent properties.
  • To stay bite-free, said Brandi Moritz with the Platte County Health Department, residents can treat standing water with mosquito larvicide briquettes, put on repellant, wear long sleeves and avoid being outdoors from dusk to dawn when the mosquitoes bite most. KansasCity.com: Front Page
  • For antimosquito repellents take antimalarials, not Larium as can cause psychotic episodes in some people TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • One of Sonia's latest finishes is called "touch", which is a special rubber varnish that is water-repellent and smudge-proof.
  • Her mother is a drug addict and has been in and out of jail for over a decade, and Megan's insatiable craving for affection is both tragic and repellent.
  • ‘This new repellent chemistry affords flexibility and choice for protection against a variety of disease vectors,’ says Klun.
  • Since they are wearing bug repellent they only have a very small few spots on their body that is left undefended and ripe for the picking, and these sweet spots can sometimes be pretty hard to get at.
  • The charge of the ion is hence changed from negative to positive, and the ion is repelled from the terminal and accelerated towards the exit of the tube which is earthed. Accelerators and Nobel Laureates
  • Multi-layer microfibres, resin and rubber coated cotton are available in a line of water-repellent jackets.
  • Avoid using electronic repellent devices, mothballs or other unregistered products.
  • There are no painted signs to repel native beachcombers and yet it seems the indigenous people know instinctively where to tread, where not to go.
  • Troops repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.
  • The stable points act as attractors, and correspondingly unstable points as repellers.
  • Their white coats ensure excellent camouflage against the snow and are water-repellent.
  • My first step will be to remove the insect killer tubelight setup on each floor, and issue a blanket ban on all insect repellants.
  • That enterprise led to what I thought was a particularly repellent burst of American / European chauvinism - a fantasy that there was nothing there before the Europeans arrived.
  • We are "repelled" by the highjacking of literature for these moral purposes because it is not "sincere. John Dewey's *Art as Experience*
  • For listeners, this rendering of a concert experience is ‘the kernel of enjoyment that simultaneously attracts and repels us’.
  • He has even called in sponsorship from an insect-repellent manufacturer, providing wipes to keep the area's bloodsuckers at bay.
  • Certain aphids seem to prefer waxy leaves, whereas other species are repelled by them.
  • As a result, the metamorphic forms have a simultaneously repellant and enticing effect.
  • Beyond them came the beauty of the Hoxworth lane: to the left and north stood an unbroken line of croton bushes imported by Whip from Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and of all that grew on his plantations, these were his favorites, these low sparkling bushes whose iridescent green and red and purple and gold and blue leaves were a constant source of wonder; but to the right ran a long row of hibiscus trees, low shrublike plants that produced a dozen varieties of fragile, crepelike flowers, each with its own dazzling color; Hawaii
  • We are all familiar with rod-shaped magnets: they are described as 'dipolar', with a north pole and a south pole, and the tendency to attract each other's opposite poles and repel similar poles. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Small and irregular items can be covered with cling film after first spraying with silicon water repellent from an aerosol can.
  • The police captain reinforced from his vanguard, and the mob at the rear was repelled. SOUTH OF THE SLOT
  • He used a flat limestone on which the design was drawn with a water-repellent, greasy substance like a crayon.
  • They used powerful spells on the relic, that would prove to be most potent and would repel evil forces from using it.
  • Another friend of mine swears by rubbing dryer sheets on his exposed skin to repel mosquito's. Repel Biting Bugs With Your iPhone
  • He isn't nerdy, but he is repelled by what he feels is the machismo of current music.
  • A young scientist invents a material that is indestructible and repels dirt.
  • The traps were openly on sale in the aisles of FarmArama in Gonubie along with rat traps and insect repellent.
  • Precautions include the use of insect repellants, insecticide room sprays, mosquito netting, and screened windows.
  • A feminist from her student days at Berkeley, Kingston left California for Hawaii with her American husband in the late 60s, so repelled were they by the violence of the anti-war movement.
  • To be useful, pesticides and repellents must work against not only mosquitoes but also other disease-transmitting arthropods.
  • The battle would be a succession of hand-to-hand conflicts to board or to repel boarders.
  • If any one had taxed him with the vice, he would have indignantly repelled the accusation, and conceived himself unworthily aspersed. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
  • MyDynamo, with Jody Petty in the leathers, took the immediate lead and repelled all challengers as he sailed with finesse and precision over the first two miles of National fences.
  • Peters is hard at work repelling the attackers, thrilled, he claims, to be a contrarian again.
  • Many everyday objects, including water and wood, are weakly diamagnetic - that is, they're repelled by magnetic fields.
  • This she did with a measure of maturity beyond her years, moving quickly to repel attacks and eliminate danger.
  • Although fish axons are capable of regeneration, they are nevertheless repelled by mammalian CNS myelin and oligodendrocytes.
  • In fact, several guidebooks were conspiracies to conceal this information, and repel invaders from outside the initiated inner circle.
  • The institute breeds aedes, anopheles and culex mosquitoes used in research toward development of repellents, drugs and vaccines to protect service members from such diseases as dengue fever, malaria and encephalitis.
  • I accept this Lucullan offering as a true compliment, and am not repelled by my host's proud description, but these reactions are contradictory. Cardiac
  • Insects are all repelled by potent essential oils, such as lavender oil.
  • We are certainly given no clues that these flashes of black indicate that Julie is ‘denying her memories’ or that she is trying to repel her memories and obliterate the past by regressing to a time before memory was active in her as a subject.
  • France would then have as much interest in repelling Russia as we have. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
  • I've used soapy water, ProTek, a citrus extract that repels insects, and diatomaceous earth applied while the foliage is wet. Seeking a tomato guru
  • Mosquitoes are night creatures, too, so insect repellent is a must (on you but never your bait). Dark Waters, Moonless Nights
  • Our proud ancestors repelled the invaders, but their contemptible descendants are sided with the invaders.
  • It is made of strong polyester and with a water-repellent coating to protect your stuff in a storm. The Sun
  • They were then moved to the right to strengthen that flank, at noon, then forward to help repel French cavalry charges at 15.30.
  • They say that magnets of the same pole repel each other, but in this case it wasn't so.
  • His ugly face was repellent to her.
  • Insect repellants should be used in the early morning and late afternoon when Aedes mosquitoes are most active.
  • That plan will see a ban on driftnets in some EU waters and the use of acoustic devices, or pingers, to repel dolphins and related species from driftnets.
  • He orders the witch to repel the charge of sorcery by the oath of sixteen women, so these jurywomen must have been often exposed to peremptory challenges.
  • They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
  • It seems some people repel friends by choosing to wear an air of paranoid victimhood.
  • Aphareus’ son, with his great sword hewed at the spear near the butt, and the edge leapt back repelled by the shock, like a hammer from the anvil; and the heroes shouted with joy for their hope in the contest. The Argonautica
  • This practice is also one way of checking pest outbreaks and certain intercrops serve the additional purpose of being insect repellents. Chapter 6
  • The researchers relied on the ability of the material to repel a magnetic field, a trademark of superconductors.
  • It was noted that the contact surface of the tarsi of the beetle Hemisphaerota cyanea (Chrysomelidae, Cassidinae) is water-repellent.
  • Meer Baber Beg has placed his fortress in a very respectable state of defence, quite adequate to repel the desultory inroads of his predatory neighbours; but commanded by and exposed to enfilade from the hills about it, on one of these hills he has built a tower as a kind of outwork, but it is very weak and of insignificant size. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
  • Despite their repellent condition, they resemble ancient Britons.
  • Sam has bug repellent all over him.
  • Scientists have now identified two kairomones produced by a common mosquito predator, which effectively repel mosquitoes.
  • This tendency to repel every suggestion of inferiority is one of the surest signs of provincial habits; it is exactly the feeling with which the resident of the village resents what he calls the airs of the town, and that which the inland trader brings with him among those whom he terms the "dandies" of the sea-board. Recollections of Europe
  • It was a part that captured a peculiarly repellent side of the Reagan-Thatcher era and it rightly brought Michael Douglas an Oscar for outdoing the hyperactive villains his father, Kirk, played in postwar melodramas. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – review
  • He found a few others: a sphagnum moss peat bog can repel the invasion of pine trees for thousands of years.
  • Planted among members of the cabbage family, it helps repel imported cabbageworm.
  • If the neutral body be lighter than the medium, it exhibits the magnetic induction of iron with respect to polarity, but is nevertheless repelled; while if it be heavier than the medium, its direction is similar to that of diamagnetic bodies such as bismuth, but on the other hand exhibits the phenomena of attraction. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
  • On the macroscale, adding fluorine atoms to carbon-based materials makes for water-repellant, non-stick surfaces.
  • After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet.
  • Certainly US air support will be needed to repel the attack on Ramadi. Times, Sunday Times
  • Satin in particular is one of those weird fabrics that seems to repel heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was everything to repel -- the cold, the frost, the hardness, the snow, dark sky and ground, leaflessness; the very furze chilled and all benumbed. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
  • The same electromagnetic pulses can be registered in the event of elevated sferic frequencies or nuclear electromagnetic pulses stemming from elevated sun activities, and from our perspective this is another reason why it is undertaken to repel these sferic frequencies with the help of toxic substances, like aluminium oxides and barium-chlorides so as to protect semiconductor technologies. Signs of the Times
  • At this crisis, Wallace with a band of resolute men, sprang from the tower upon the wall; and it being almost deserted by its late guards, (who had quitted their post to assist in repelling the foe below), he leaped into the midst of the conflict, and the battle became general. The Scottish Chiefs
  • Designer Michiel Cornelissen laser-sintered stainless-steel crucifix has screwdriver bits cut into each tip, turning it into a screwdriver that repels vampires. Boing Boing
  • It didn't offend me, amuse me, arouse me, repel me, seduce me or astound me.
  • It had been unnecessary to tell him so bluntly that his physical presence repelled her. IN LOVE AND WAR
  • The military crackdown that followed has been widely criticised, particularly because of the use of birdshot to repel protesters. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not only does it repel mosquitoes, but it repels ticks, chiggers, fleas, and flies, too.
  • Step 3 : If the aluminum foil ball is repelled away from the dish, the electroscope works.
  • He was hard at work on his magnum opus: a painting, six feet tall, of the Savior's slaughter on the cross, a feral Pollockian image simultaneously repelling and exhilarating; the colors clamored in crimsons and yellows, blacks and speckled, blue blots.
  • The leathery sheet object is excellent in water repellency and water resistance in sections formed by cutting.
  • She found him physically repellent.
  • Since nuclei carry positive electrical charges, they normally repel one another.
  • Because nanoscale superconductors don't repel magnetic fields, they could prove useful in a variety of superconducting applications.
  • Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other. General Science
  • The image of Citrona as fascinating and repellant at once seems to be what most interested Cruz in concocting this story.
  • The negative charge repels plasma proteins, including albumen, so they are not filtered but remain in the blood.
  • It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders.
  • It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate. Moby Dick; or the Whale
  • Some trees exude from their bark a sap that repels insect parasites.
  • Next weekend, haul out your sleeping bag, your camp stove and your bug repellent as Oasis, the party in the badlands, takes to the wilds of Drumheller in search of the perfect combo of beat manipulation, bonfires and marshmallows.
  • If I know us Lutherans, however, we'll be so busy testing the qualities of magnets and garlic and watching how our fellow confessors do so that we will attract anyone wearing steel and repel him by our smell.
  • It is unfortunate that gadgets such as zappers, ultrasound devices, citronella and other ‘natural ‘repellents don't work.
  • The use of mosquito repellents, especially coils, mats and liquids, apparently will have harmful effects on the health.
  • The restorative properties of the peppermint and spearmint plant specifically, have fascinated herbalists and repelled insects for thousands of years.
  • At first he was repelled by the air of luxury and corruption, but then enjoyed it.
  • We repelled the enemy from the shores after a long hard struggle.
  • They manage to defend themselves and repel the androids that have attacked them.
  • The frozen and remote feeling of the old portrait photograph which repelled artists like Redon has had an intense attraction for others.
  • Articles appeared in the trade press during December 1931 about how MGM studio personnel were so repelled by the sideshow cast that the studio set aside a special lunchroom for some of the performers.
  • Mandralisca found this new Barjazid just as charmingly repellent as his elder brother had been. KING OF DREAMS
  • With poverty only as their stepmother, they are repelled violently from the nectared cup of philosophy as soon as they have tasted of it and have become more fiercely thirsty by the very taste. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • The repellent agent cannot gain anything from the washing materials agent.
  • It is important to obtain a natural mosquito repellant, one that is free of DEET, the toxic additive found in most insect repellants.
  • Troops repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.
  • The EPA characterizes DEET and picaridin as conventional repellents, while oil of lemon eucalyptus is a "biopesticide repellent," meaning it is created from natural materials like plants. Itching to stop mosquitoes? Zoom in on the options
  • In addition to these attributes the kapok fiber is totally water repellent and resistant to rot.
  • The scene which appears most frequently in art shows the cook repelling boarders, beating off the tasters and nibblers who hover hopefully round his precious stewpot.
  • Emerson's worldview, repelled by orthodoxies, was open-ended, evolving, unspecified, rejecting all incarnations as strictly pro tern.
  • Guests received Ear Charms, ear-cuff jewelry that wraps on the ear without piercing or clipping, glasses with magnetized clip-on shades by Chemistrie, bath products for pets by I Heart Pet Head, mosquito repelling candles from Bite-Lite. Zorianna Kit: 2012 Grammy Awards Gifting Suites
  • The frozen and remote feeling of the old portrait photograph which repelled artists like Redon has had an intense attraction for others.
  • The painful and even dangerous rite of circumcision was alone capable of repelling a willing proselyte from the door of the synagogue. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • A time when we flirted with ideas that repel us in our adulthood.
  • In the physical world, once an attacker is repelled, you follow up with counterattack.
  • As these electrons are negatively charged they will attempt to repel each other. Fats, Nutrition and Health
  • New machines designed to release sprays based on citronella oil or geraniol, another plant-derived repellent with a sweet, rosy odor, also are available.
  • In case there is an incursion into our territories, we have to repel such attacks.
  • Kinard, a Casey Affleck lookalike, provides an unsettling mixture of dewy-eyed sincerity and barely concealed insanity – he both attracts with his charm but repels with his odd demands, creating a wonderfully enigmatic personality. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • The 7-4 second favourite was fast up and, after leading at the bend, repelled the challenge of Sandyhill Boss, who had loomed upsides as a big danger at the third bend.
  • “They are not mine,” said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. Wuthering Heights
  • However, synthetics like polyester and nylon are naturally hydrophobic, so they repel the water and keep it away from the skin.
  • Mark Salt, a BP spokesman based in Houston, Texas, said the company is using something called sorbent boom, which is made of materials that attract oil, but repel water. KSL / U.S. / National
  • Since like charges repel, the hair strand will tend to push away from each other, causing the \ "flyaway hair\" effect. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • This UC repels A, tending to jam it on the line AE, which is absolutely rigid. Moral Philosophy
  • The obduracy and obstinacy of human beings is what enables them to fight for their countries, repel invaders and maintain their solidarity.
  • At a recent meeting, Dorson served a cheesy, crepelike pastry called a blintz and explained the legendary story of how a Hebrew woman named Judith used it to help the ancient army of Israel conquer its enemy. IndyStar.com Top Stories
  • One lady I know then imagines her own cavalry, riding to her aid to repel the invaders. Banish Headaches -how to obtain fast, drug-free relief from headache
  • Which - under the circumstances - was even more oleaginously repellent than expressing regret; somehow managing to rub it in everyone’s face that a) it happened and b) he disapproved morally and isn’t he good? Saying sorry - the new PR arms race
  • If he can repel the visitors he will get the biggest cheer of the day. The Sun
  • Suddenly, when he started to push back asylum-seekers like a sea captain repelling boarders, the polls began to turn.
  • Mary Spaeth, owner of Paws in the Country dog boarding and day care near Rice, said homemade repellants might also work: Ticks can't stand essential oils such as citronella, eucalyptus and peppermint. News
  • The circumstances of this ageing class warrior tupping his secretary were too repellent even for the politically correct lemon-suckers that so abound this dreary bunch of Socialists who were at last forced to disavow him, albeit under their breath. Weep Not at Slob's Sob Story
  • However, the local boys are made of strong stuff and repelled many attacks and counter-attacked at times with great skill and discipline.
  • Furniture, televisions, other electrical appliances, carpets and rugs often contain chemicals that are stain repellent or fire retardant.
  • If he can repel the visitors he will get the biggest cheer of the day. The Sun
  • Only direct contact with the Holiest of items, The Host, The Cross, and Holy water, will suffice to repel her.
  • As soon as I perceived he would certainly fall on board, I called the boarders, so as to be ready to repel any attempt to board us. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
  • Some sleep in coffins and are repelled by crosses. Villain Stereotypes « Write Anything
  • The rough winters of Norway nurtured the forest cat's vitality, resourcefulness and sensible, semi-long, water-repellent coat.
  • Mosquito bites may be avoided by removing stagnant sources of water or by using protective clothing, repellants, larvicides, and, in cases of epidemics, insecticides.
  • But since DEET can damage plastics, rayon, spandex, and leather, some consumers look for alternative insect repellents.
  • Lt. Lane had never been required to repel any kind of onslaught since he'd taken command, but he was a well-trained Federation officer and had a masterful knowledge of all the defense tactics at his disposal.
  • The waxed finish breathable 100% cotton outer is water-repellent, wind-proof and thorn-proof. Times, Sunday Times
  • Similar poles of magnets repel each other, and opposite poles attract.
  • When the current is repelled from the sea by adverse winds, when the ordinary bed is inadequate to the weight of waters, they rise above the banks, and overspread, without limits or control, the plains and cities of the adjacent country. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The design is drawn on a special, flat stone or on a metal plate with a greasy water-repellant substance (greased crayon or a greasy ink called tusche).
  • Such riches are not without robbers, and we observed male purple-throats defending their patches, repelling other purple-throats as well as Saint Lucia orioles and Lesser Antillean bullfinches.
  • There is an especially repellent quotation highlighted in episcopal purple on the back cover.
  • When a paramagnetic material is placed in a strong magnetic field, it becomes a magnet, and as long as the strong magnetic field is present, it will attract and repel other magnets in the usual way.
  • Perhaps the most repellant scene in the movie, it quickly takes the ugly overtones of a rape scene as he forces himself into her.
  • Simply fill its attractive sterling silver jewelry with a citrus-scented oil to naturally repel mosquitoes, gnats, bees and wasps.
  • I can not bear this obscene, grubbing curiosity about the affairs of others, it has never failed to repel me.
  • Sometimes, he's too passionate for his own good, repelling the very audience he's trying to communicate with.
  • With such new knowledge, malaria scientists will be able to pry out information long hidden in the genomes that can be used to design new insecticides, new repellants, and new drugs.
  • That idea is as appealing to some as it is repellant to others. Globe and Mail
  • Initially repelled by Sam's sleazy antics, Rebecca denies him his job, but after her highers-up realizes that Sam, the former Red Sox great, will be good for business they press her to hire him back.
  • Some herbs that repel fleas include: juniper, pennyroyal, citronella, eucalyptus, cedar and Canadian fleabane.
  • Once upon a time, repelled (rightly) by Canada's treatment of First Nations people, and in particular the Ontario government's collaboration with Big Mining to despoil Indian lands and jail their leaders, she preached aboriginal revolution: Archive 2009-11-01
  • Officers chased him on foot, tried to disable him with a Taser gun (repelled by Johnson's leather jacket), and finally wrestled him from the cart.
  • Public support can urge Republicans to repel policy and political risks of inaction and obsequiousness to Tea Party agendas. Bradford Kane: Lessons From the Debt Ceiling Crisis: Bipartisanship in the Tea Party Era
  • _And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; and chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly outre. Chivalry
  • The garment repels water but is sufficiently porous to prevent moisture buildup from perspiration.
  • Commercial repellents use animal products, such as putrescent egg solids, to make the plants unappealing to deer. The temperamental rose offers rewards in color, fragrance and luxuriance
  • Avoid using highly perfumed soaps and shampoos, wear loose-fitting clothing, which forms an air barrier between you and the bugs, and use an herbal repellent.
  • So as soon as the bamboos were skinned, the fishermen coated them with a natural insect repellent.
  • Some also find natural gardening methods to be very effective, such as using mosquito-repelling plants like sassafras, sweet basil, eucalyptus and geraniums, particularly the citrosa variety.
  • Irrigate the area to be treated with 1/2 inch of water before applying the repellent solution and follow with 1 inch or more of water.
  • In the aisles between the vines as well as in fallow fields, growers plant different crops to crowd out weeds, repel bugs, and provide soil nutrients.
  • He had attempted to cut the Gordian knot by giving up the cleaning of his pipe, but this had resulted in the inhalation of indescribably repellent, ferociously bitter, and appallingly slimy gobbets of cold dottle. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • Animals or even plants may emit different semiochemicals (including pheromones) which serve as sexual attractants, repellents to potential predators, or inducements to flight mode.
  • Definitely: I think there's a complex system of attachments, connections, chemistries that draws us to each other (or repels us). Diana Abu-Jaber discusses her true identity with Origin
  • This writer, in his repellent movies and plays, has consistently exhibited not mature insight into the nature of evil but a prurient burrowing into gleefully accumulated muck.
  • Perhaps you have had the experience of trying to press together two strong magnets, with like poles opposed, repelling each other. The Harper Dictionary of Science in Everyday Language
  • We repelled the enemy from the shores after a long hard struggle.
  • Evil cannot always be repelled by incantation, by demonstrations, by social analysis or by psychoanalysis.
  • A direct current electric cable has its conductor insulation formed by winding a tape of a biaxially oriented polymer provided on at least one face with a film of water-repellent grease.
  • This tendency to repel every suggestion of inferiority is one of the surest signs of provincial habits; it is exactly the feeling with which the resident of the village resents what he calls the airs of the town, and that which the inland trader brings with him among those whom he terms the "dandies" of the sea-board. Recollections of Europe
  • Were he to offer this defence in his memoirs, he might repel the attack that he was weak. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, with repellent images of disgust, he urges his mother to cease all sexual relations with Claudius.

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