How To Use Repelling In A Sentence

  • Six years ago, Major Murray responded to the call of industry and business to organize and operate The Responsible Enterprise Movement, a point of reference for all agencies engaged in repelling the advance of Collectivism. The Only Way to Save Civilization
  • Hence the decisive victory of Aliwal and its wonderful results and important aid in repelling the Sikh army at Sobraon and seizing the capital of his vaunted glory. The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
  • As the indigenous people in the video game, you're tasked with repelling the invaders and driving them back into the sea.
  • Charter marks for repelling dust moved endlessly across them like the sheen of oil on water. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
  • Though he was committed to the cause of preserving beauty and repelling ugliness, he was no dogmatist. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The increasing repelling power of the accelerated motion of the wheel may serve as an illustration of that which we call vigorous vibration, good vitality, natural immunity or recuperative power. Nature Cure
  • WISCONSINITES SPLIT ON WALKER RECALL - A Wisconsin Public Radio / St. Norbert College survey finds that Wisconsin voters are evenly split on whether to recall Governor Scott Walker for the bill he supported that will likely downgrade state workers' health plans to a dally allowance of one doctor-repelling apple. HUFFPOST HILL - Ensign Investigation Won't End
  • Exeter dug in in the face of pressure in the first half, at one stage repelling 18 phases on their line. Times, Sunday Times
  • This leads to actually repelling waves of enemy soldiers and tanks that roll out of the forest towards you.
  • They are not mine," said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. Wuthering Heights
  • They call it the Glass City because its towers are shaped from the same demon-repelling substance as our steles; in the sunlight they sparkle like glass. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
  • Build bases, rescue civilians and hostages, medevac your troops while detaining theirs to earn both information and money to continue the mission of repelling the waves of terrorism.
  • Now, it is a peculiar fact, as shown by Massart, Bordet and others, in researches on chemiotaxis, that nearly all these poisons have the power of repelling leucocytes, and of seriously interfering with them in the performance of their functions, and this power assumes a special significance in connection with our subject this afternoon. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say
  • As the counteroffensive went on, the fronts and armies were gaining experience in repelling counterattacks of big enemy tank force groupings.
  • Republic of Ireland 0-1 France World Cup 2010 Qualifying Highlights (Video) (1): Ze lucky frogs-spawny vampire repelling fickers! Soccer Blogs - latest posts
  • Then, seizing them as if they were, as they were, loaded cannon, he henceforth used them steadily and valiantly in repelling and discomfiting his foe. The Uniter and Liberator of America
  • The Dipylidium caninum , Ancylostoma and Toxocara canis are preponderance and the major object in repelling worm.
  • Throughout the entire federation campaign, a couple of torpedo turrets were capable of repelling every attack the enemy mounted.
  • • Cover seats with soil-repelling fabrics such as leatherlike vinyl or tapestry, which camouflages stains well. How To Avoid Housework
  • 'They are not mine,' said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Wuthering Heights
  • `The Soviet Armed Forces shall be ready at any moment to inflict a shattering, repelling blow against imperialist aggressors... ` KARA KUSH
  • That's what I call repelling boarders!" said Captain Barforth, grimly. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht.
  • The house had put up its defenses, and they were successfully repelling him. SACRAMENT
  • The higher such a one's past Christian experiences, the deeper his fall. done despite unto -- by repelling in fact: as "blasphemy" is despite in words (Mr 3: 29). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • He intended to keep things that way, repelling would-be graziers, firewood cutters and poachers with an iron hand.
  • The character of Sophia's flat, instead of repelling the wrong kind of aspirant, infallibly drew just that kind. The Old Wives' Tale
  • And, moreover, they have the power of exciting fresh whirls in neighboring conductors, and of repelling them according to the laws of diamagnetism. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
  • 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
  • Peters is hard at work repelling the attackers, thrilled, he claims, to be a contrarian again.
  • France would then have as much interest in repelling Russia as we have. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 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
  • “They are not mine,” said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. Wuthering Heights
  • Suddenly, when he started to push back asylum-seekers like a sea captain repelling boarders, the polls began to turn.
  • 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.
  • Sometimes, he's too passionate for his own good, repelling the very audience he's trying to communicate with.
  • 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.
  • But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face. The Hidden Places
  • I'm sure Justin Timberlake left Cameron not so much because he has a fear of commitment, but more for the sake he has a fear of having his blood drained by this repellingly hideous chupacabra. Archive 2007-01-01
  • Exeter dug in in the face of pressure in the first half, at one stage repelling 18 phases on their line. Times, Sunday Times
  • After repelling Oxford's more determined thrusts, City broke free from their shackles as a Richard Hope shot from 25 yards was deflected wide for a corner.
  • But, it's a nonstop, high-pressure, introvert repelling kind of job.
  • Company executives could take heart from the success of another firm at repelling a raid from carpetbaggers after members last week turned down windfalls to support the management.
  • Once or twice her feet lost their footing, but with a firm grasp of the rope, Charlie was able to regain her balance, and continue repelling downward.
  • Thanks David I fear few are interested in repelling the hoardes on this particular field and IT and CU are so much pithier. Chaucer Versus Socialism
  • A secret pocket containing a sachet of natural, moth-repelling herbs ensures that your pashmina will emerge from the summer smelling sweet, rather than reeking of a musty old attic.
  • The polyurethane foam does not hold moisture and is hydrophobic (water repelling).
  • If water drips onto the back of a waxed frog, it forms beads (just as it would on a stick of butter), because the waxed skin is hydrophobic - both repelling water and retarding evaporative water loss.
  • Happy would it have been, had she exerted an equal degree of fortitude in repelling the first attacks upon her virtue! The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
  • The rest I have to chance, and, as I told you, I've so far been pretty lucky in repelling invaders. A Little Bush Maid

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