How To Use Repulse In A Sentence

Sue is hard and resilient and, though she is the film's embodiment of civilization in much the way Grace Kelly is High Noon's, she's neither frightened nor morally repulsed when violence erupts.
I am mystified and slightly repulsed. Times, Sunday Times
People are repulsed at the idea of limiting the amount of children someone can have, despite the fact that our schools, health care, and planet itself simply cannot support us.
I have always had a phobia about pregnancy and childbirth, the whole idea of it repulses me beyond belief.
The armed forces were prepared to repulse any attacks.

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They'll see the yucky black emptiness inside, and they'll be repulsed and run away.
The labourers went quietly and steadily on with their work, as though it were a thing that had to be done; and when Jüchziger laid his hand on one and another of them, with the idea of hindering them by force, he soon found himself repulsed in no very gentle fashion. The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
Defensive security is defined as a sufficiency of military and economic potentials of the state to repulse possible threats to its independence and territorial integrity.
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their contempt.
The enemy attack was quickly repulsed.
She was not flattered by Mr. Elton's confession, only repulsed at this inferior man daring to address the fine Miss Woodhouse in such a manner.
A counter-attack by royal forces was quickly repulsed. Times, Sunday Times
Maybe the thought of their children being "lectured" by a black man repulses them? Andy Ostroy: The Obama School "Controversy": Has America Gone Completely Insane, or Just Plain Racist?
At Crécy they decisively repulsed a mounted charge by French knights.
The next day the Greeks have a pop at Troy itself but the mighty Trojan army repulses them (Achilles not fighting in this one).
He was repulsed by what he saw in the official circles.
And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homaeopathic dynameter. The Odyssey of Homer
Blücher was compelled to give ground, and his repulse was the signal for a general Allied retreat. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
This objection, however, or some other, rather political than moral, obtained such prevalence, that when Gay produced a second part, under the name of Polly, it was prohibited by the lord chamberlain; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription, which is said to have been so liberally bestowed, that what he called oppression ended in profit. The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II
(When I was in college and did learn about that, I was repulsed, which is the reaction that most of my female friends have to the idea of analsex.) The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of Clearidas, and did not finally give way until they were surrounded and routed by the missiles of the The History of the Peloponnesian War
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
The backwash of my command as they instinctively repulsed it giddied me, but I recovered faster than they did. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
He was also able to warn his front line that the enemy was preparing an attack, which was repulsed with great loss of life to the Germans. Times, Sunday Times
It is said that Christina was never the same, being repulsed by the scent of people.
His point was that Bourbons would take any votes they could get, but they were socially repulsed by the poor, both African American and white.
Evil has charisma. Though people are repulsed by it, they also are drawn to its power.
Barry is repulsed by Tosser's Little Englander mentality, but beggars can't be choosers, and he knows that unless he can raise some cash quick the bailiff will be moving in on him, his business and his unsuspecting wife.
To him a repulse was the starting point of a new attempt. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886
In the end, it's the old contradictory chestnut of being both repulsed and attracted simultaneously that keeps you hooked.
However, from your blogging persona I've gotten the sense that you're aesthetically repulsed by the usual sex-and-shopping ditzfests and self-help bozothons that most agents use to meet their profit margins. Love or money?
Like rubbernecking at the scene of a fatal accident, I am repulsed yet, at the same time, I cannot seem to pull my eyes away.
The Provoste gaining no other grace at this time, would not so give over for this first repulse, but pursuing her still with unbeseeming importunity; many private meanes he used to her by The Decameron
General Heron reports that the two battalions under your command fought with extraordinary steadiness, and repulsed all the attempts of his cavalry to break them; and finally succeeded in drawing off to the mountains, with the exception of the two companies that formed the rear guard. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
Saleh was quite delighted, but we thought any direction would be good for our map and we still had hopes of digging near Meshed, though we began to have fears that a repulse eastward would strengthen the hands of our enemies westward. Southern Arabia
Porsena being repulsed in his first attempt, having changed his plans from a siege to a blockade, after he had placed a garrison in The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
Every Zulu thrust was repulsed by soldiers literally fighting for their lives.
They contrasted strongly with the half-breeds, or mestizoes, who, repulsed like the former, vented their indignation in cries and protestations. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
And if you need a whiney, loud-mouthed woman to repulse those pesky telemarketers, throw your little sis some cash.
Government troops repulsed an attack by rebel forces.
When he, like a loyall and most honourable man, sharpely reprehended her fond and idle love: And when shee would have embraced him about the necke to have kissed him; he repulsed her roughly from him, protesting upon his honourable reputation, that rather then hee would so wrong his The Decameron
Yes, some professionals are going to look at some of the cutesier things and be repulsed; but others may be amused by the (cliche warning) opportunity to get in touch with their inner child (children?) The Assumptions That Yahoo Mash And Other Social Networks Make About You - Publishing 2.0
Indeed, Catherine is repulsed by David's African stories, and her hysterical outburst against them is imbued with racist assumptions.
The answer occurred to me almost straight away - I was repulsed because they were ugly!
They repulsed their enemy from the shores after a long hard struggle.
Our analysis confirmed that many 1932 moviegoers were repulsed by the film, but whether that translated to even more negative attitudes toward people with disabilities is unclear.
The first intimation he had of a repulse was the trembling of In His Steps
Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
Meursault is repulsed by Raymond's scruffy appearance.
They fight into the waning sun until the enemy is repulsed.
Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
I'm sure Straw Dogs is rather unpopular with the feminist community, and I find myself repulsed by the film for the same reason.
'Tis an odd-looking affair; the collar of it repulses his "ossifer hat" from the top of his "hade;" the tail, long and forked, striking his hams at every step, and two great rusty epaulets on his shoulders -- enough to weigh down a man of less patriotic spirit, and on a less patriotic occasion. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters
Oh how it so repulsed her, her father tee-heeing ever so loudly in the room next to hers.
Her husband tried to comfort her, but every time he came near she repulsed him with undisguised venom. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The very thought of his cold clammy hands repulsed me.
The enemy attack was quickly repulsed.
Do not, for one repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effort.
Polly, it was prohibited by the Lord Chamberlain; and he was forced to recompense his repulse by a subscription, which is said to have been so liberally bestowed that what he called oppression ended in profit. Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
They were repulsed with great loss. Times, Sunday Times
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
The party leader, Trevor Sargent, told a Young Greens conference in Galway that ‘even the most enthusiastic of young voters’ had been repulsed by the sleaze exposed at the tribunals.
In this way ‘Repulsed’ addresses the enigma of creative inspiration and articulates its own unique prose language in the process.
The third war was fought in 1919, when the new amir of Afghanistan, Amanullah, attacked British India and, although repulsed, secured the independence of Afghanistan through the Treaty of Rawalpindi.
But the Barbarians were finally repulsed; the country became every day less favorable to the operations of cavalry; and when the Romans arrived at Macepracta, they perceived the ruins of the wall, which had been constructed by the ancient kings of Assyria, to secure their dominions from the incursions of the Medes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
These include the battlecruisers HMS Hood, HMS Repulse and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales.
We are loath to admit it, but we don't know how to deal with things that both attract and repulse us.
Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
His program of defensiveness postulated Soviet possession of a defensive capability sufficient to absorb and repulse an enemy blow.
It was due to the fact that the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 1942 had led the Wehrmacht's 302nd Infantry Division, which had repulsed the attack, to draw up a how-not-to manual of coastal landings.
After each repulse, when the old wolf sheered abruptly away from the sharp-toothed object of his desire, he shouldered against a young three-year-old that ran on his blind right side. The Battle of the Fangs
Gorge, that did be on her, and had made her garment utter wet and bemired, so that she did feel that her very body was a repulse unto her. The Night Land
And there is a kind of sacredness attached to the memory of the great and the good, which seems to bid us repulse the scepticism which would allegorize their existence into a pleasing apologue, and measure the giants of intellect by an homeopathic dynameter. The Iliad of Homer
Finally the firing dwindled; the charge had been repulsed.
They repulsed their enemy from the shores after a long hard struggle.
Giamatti doesn't want any part of the carousing, mostly because he thinks it will lead to more rejection, but he pretends he's morally repulsed.
Her request for a donation met with a repulse.
Even the criminal fraternity must be repulsed by this crime and must be setting their minds to exposing the person who did this as soon as possible.
These films regale as they repulse, hitting the gag reflex and the funny bone simultaneously.
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Even as the British army repulses the French at almost every turn, the British navy's task seems harder since it is short of men.
Robinson left the door to lean over the table, apparently not as repulsed by the gory mess as his partner clearly was.
You are to repulse an attack of terrorist detachments at each level.
Apparently, bygones haven't been gone by for long enough yet, and the attempt was repulsed.
The backwash of my command as they instinctively repulsed it giddied me, but I recovered faster than they did. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Besides the loss which he sustained on the night of the 23d ultimo, which is estimated at 400, he cannot have suffered less between that period and the morning of the 18th instant than 3000; having, within that time, been repulsed in two general attempts to drive us from our position, and there having been continual cannonading and skirmishing during the whole of it. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
She wished it to be completely re-written; protesting, that a man who, in all probability, was a mere fortune-hunter, would infer from so gentle a dismission encouragement rather than repulse. Camilla
I am mystified and slightly repulsed. Times, Sunday Times
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Pagondas speaks to the Boeotian army to encourage it to attack the Athenians; he calls the fortification of Delium an assault that must be repulsed. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
For a while, however, most Americans seemed repulsed by what their country had become during the war, and refused to have anything to do with Wilson's messianic world agenda.
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effor.
The case has gripped and repulsed the nation in equal measure.
This iron Phalanx repulses the wave of Trojan attackers.
It has become increasingly clear that it is impossible to repulse the offensive launched against the working class without challenging the basis of the capitalist system.
'I now exulted in our prospect of success in my deliverance: I grew more cheerful, my uncle was tender and affectionate; I bore his caresses without any repulses, but left the room soon as possible I employed myself in packing up a few necessaries in a small portmantua, with what little valuables I had, and was tolerably supplied with money, as I thought, knowing little of the expences of a journey. The Castle of Wolfenbach
And a number of the stories couple difficult content with a very lyrical style which, I think, makes a reader feel pulled between being repulsed by the text and attracted to it.
The muddy ground delayed them and gave the French gunners time to rally and repulse the first attack.
Then I asked them each to pick out one painting that he or she couldn't stand and tell me what it was about the picture that repelled or repulsed him or her.
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
London was both fascinated and repulsed by what he saw in New York City and his ambivalence is apparent throughout the essay. Telic Action and Collective Stupidity: A Rare Jack London Essay
Twice he was repulsed with heavy losses. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
Evil has charisma. Though people are repulsed by it, they also are drawn to its power.
If you appear stiff, reserved, timid and insecure, they will feel repulsed.
As Lady St. Edmunds was no restraint upon me, her presence in our coterie was rather advantageous to Lord Frederick, banishing the reserve of a tete-a-tete, and allowing him constantly to offer gallantries too indirect to provoke repulse, yet too pointed to be overlooked.
The first intimation he had of a repulse was the trembling of Rachel's arm in his. Archive 2008-06-01
When Enid meets Seymour, she's at first repulsed, but then curious - here is a guy who is, as she states, ‘the exact opposite of everything I hate.’
I am mystified and slightly repulsed. Times, Sunday Times
Do not, for one repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effort.
The backwash of my command as they instinctively repulsed it giddied me, but I recovered faster than they did. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Sent to pacify Ionia, after several Ionian repulses, he dared not return to Susa and so departed for his Thracian project.
Airey DC (2003) Inappropriate choice of the experimental unit leads to a dramatic overestimation of the significance of quantitative trait loci for prepulse inhibition and startle response in recombinant congenic mice. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
All attempted German Infantry attacks were repulsed. The Sun
Toy Industry Needs Import Safety Checklist Safety recalls frighten, repulse consumers, JPMorgan analyst warns. Undefined
Etruscans, Volsci, Opici, Leucanians and Samnites, in one word subjugated the whole land bounded by the Alps and repulsed all the alien tribes that came against them. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
The thought of even being seen with you repulses me.
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
The enemy attack was quickly repulsed.
He was experiencing a sensation not unrelated to his mood in connection with the lupanar in Kansas City — attracted and yet repulsed. An American Tragedy
Twice he was repulsed with heavy losses. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
The great battle of Fredericksburg, in which the Federal armies sustained a disastrous repulse, is described in the Supplement, page Foreign and Colonial News
They repulsed their enemy from the shores after a long hard struggle.
General Heron reports that the two battalions under your command fought with extraordinary steadiness, and repulsed all the attempts of his cavalry to break them; and finally succeeded in drawing off to the mountains, with the exception of the two companies that formed the rear guard. Under Wellington's Command A Tale of the Peninsular War
On 10 September Abercromby repulsed a counterstroke by Gen Brune on the Zijpe dyke and with reinforcements raising the force to 34,000, the Duke of York assumed command and took the offensive.
Do not, for one repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effort.
Penniless and without protection, Pamela is pursued by Mr B., Lady B.'s son, but she repulses him and remains determined to retain her chastity and her unsullied conscience.
And when we play, it tends to cleave the audience right down the middle - half of them are really excited, and half of them are totally repulsed.
Evil has charisma. Though people are repulsed by it, they also are drawn to its power.
He was repulsed by the scramble of images in her mind.
Her request for a donation met with a repulse.
As a wealthy orphan, he inherited the patrimony and honors of the Anician family, a name ambitiously assumed by the kings and emperors of the age; and the appellation of Manlius asserted his genuine or fabulous descent from a race of consuls and dictators, who had repulsed the Gauls from the Capitol, and sacrificed their sons to the discipline of the republic. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effect.
He seems both attracted and repulsed by the exoticized version of her that he imagines.
At the first brush,the enemy was repulsed.
All attempted German Infantry attacks were repulsed. The Sun
You call your outrages, rights, and the courage which repulses them, a crime! The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
It was here where a small garrison of 140 British troops repulsed an attack by some 3000 Zulu impis, resulting in 11 Victoria Crosses being awarded for exemplary bravery - the highest ever in a single action.
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
He was also able to warn his front line that the enemy was preparing an attack, which was repulsed with great loss of life to the Germans. Times, Sunday Times
All attacks they vigorously repulsed and made a truce, pretendedly for the purpose of arranging terms with Caesar, when he should come. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
I was impatient with her politics and repulsed by her unevolved narcissism.
I enclose to you with Mr. Mathews's attack and Brother Dougharty's repulse, which is all the newspaper work we have had. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
Lotus had been repulsed when the poor fool approached her to grab her colorful robe.
The Athenian right made a better stand, and though Cleon, who from the first had no thought of fighting, at once fled and was overtaken and slain by a Myrcinian targeteer, his infantry forming in close order upon the hill twice or thrice repulsed the attacks of The History of the Peloponnesian War
Many Americans are instinctively repulsed by the idea.
No wonder we are personally repulsed and cynical about public life and those who inhabit it.
A counter-attack by royal forces was quickly repulsed. Times, Sunday Times
What scars deformed him, so that even you, who stand for him in the courtroom, are repulsed by him?
I have seen your intended involved in numerous situations that have repulsed me and that are too shocking for me to relate on paper.
The unsupported troops who had achieved the break in the Union gun line were mostly killed or captured, and the attack decisively and bloodily repulsed.
I've resampled it a couple of times since then and although it initially seems OK and even pleasantly interesting, I have to admit that by the dry down I'm out and out repulsed. Fiddling while Rome burns
Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effect.
The Polish Navy consisted of four destroyers, five submarines, two gunboats, a mine-layer and six mine sweepers - which meant that any German attack from the sea could not be repulsed.
Their repulse was a bitter humiliation to the _parvenue_ Empress, whose resentment took the form (along with many other curious results) of opening the present Boulevard St. Germain, its line being intentionally carried through the heart of that quarter, teeming with historic "Hotels" of the old aristocracy, where beautiful constructions were mercilessly torn down to make way for the new avenue. Worldly Ways and Byways
Unlike Estonians and Latvians, Lithuanian tribes united and repulsed the German crusaders.
The antiquary, that is, the hostler of the posthouse at Spoleto, tells you that his town repulsed the victorious enemy, and shows you the gate still called _Porta di The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
They were repulsed with great loss. Times, Sunday Times
One is the audience of people who are obviously repulsed by these sort of images and people meant to be scared by it and that's the reason they're putting this tape up.
Bound feet: Wang Lung is disappointed and repulsed when he realizes that O-lan's feet are not bound.
ÂÂ As revolutionary leader of the Soviet state, he signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany (1918) and repulsed counter-revolutionary threats in the Russian Civil War. Five People Born on Earth Day, April 22 | myFiveBest
Despite this, the unit does manage to repulse the advancing rebel soldiers, leaving Henry feeling more demoralized than ever.
I will further predict that young women, repulsed by the grizzle, will embrace tradition, and demand a clean shave before dancing cheek to cheek with their inamoratos. Michael Jones: Cowboys and Aliens
Their mean-spiritedness, which they wear self-righteously as a badge of virtue, repulses everyone they touch. Recovering From Religious Abuse
On the flip side, the back line was absolutely magnificent, it stood resolutely between an inevitable beating and a horrendous shellacking; time and again the young defenders repulsed attack, reorganised and regrouped the side.
Will the disabled still have access to / benefit from these new inspirations or will we be further isolated not, this time, by the way society responds to impairment, but by the designers themselves, the designers who want their ideas and products to succeed in a world that is repulsed by crippledom? Wheelchair Dancer
Even the thought of killing didn't repulse me the way it used to, although I still refrained from that particular method of retrieving my money.
It is nature's twilight zone, a place that has repulsed all human efforts to mine or farm it, or denude it with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep.
Who can forget the Royal Navy's life-and-death hunt for the mighty German "Bismarck," and loss of the famed battlecruiser "Hood," or the sinking of "Repulse" and "Prince of Wales" off Singapore by Japanese bombers? Eric Margolis: BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY

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