repelled
Example Sentences
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Nigerien forces had repelled the attack "with the assistance of servicemen of the African Corps of the Russian Ministry of Defence", the foreign ministry in Moscow said on Sunday.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
They were briefly repelled by a security guard, who, along with two other victims in the parking lot, alerted people at the center and police to the attack, saving lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026
Kuwait's military said it repelled a dawn drone attack.
From Barron's ● May 10, 2026
The author acknowledges that there is a benefit to being repelled by animals that carry disease—or that look like they might.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
