repulse

Example Sentences

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His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

In an update posted on social media, U.K. officials say that “despite heavy fighting, Ukrainian forces continue to repulse Russian attempts to occupy” the city.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2022

Army vehicles used to repulse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait were painted with a big white chevron, for example.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2022

Nowhere else in Africa did a local ruler so successfully organize to repulse the invaders, but if circumstances had been different, they certainly could have done so.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

We returned to the schooner with our spoils, as we feared that the owner of the place even then sought out his neighbors to repulse us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson