repulsed

Example Sentences

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Mr. Lewis is alternately magnetized and repulsed by Sellers and goes to exhaustive lengths to comprehend him, eventually resorting to quoting Sellers—a believer in the power of the Ouija board—via a spiritual medium.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Initially repulsed by her new housemate, a closer relationship gradually develops between the two women.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2025

There were those repulsed by the kind of language parodied in these books, and those who forced everyone else to speak this way.

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2025

It captured Lalibela, famous for its rock-hewn churches, and Gondar, the second-biggest city in Amhara, for several days in August before being repulsed.

From Reuters • Nov. 8, 2023

The yeti devours anything that strays into its path, though it fears fire and may be repulsed by skilled wizards.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling