REPULSION in a Sentence

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I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPULSION
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repulsion
 n.  distaste; extreme aversion; act of driving back
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  But as soon as she no longer saw him, she was aware of the spot on her hand that his lips had touched, and she shuddered with repulsion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 27
2  Yes, I have lost even my affection for my son, because he is associated with the repulsion I feel for you.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
3  She played nervously with the tassel of her dressing-gown, glancing at him with that torturing sensation of physical repulsion for which she blamed herself, though she could not control it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
4  The thought of the harm caused to her husband aroused in her a feeling like repulsion, and akin to what a drowning man might feel who has shaken off another man clinging to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
5  Connie felt a sudden, strange leap of sympathy for him, a leap mingled with compassion, and tinged with repulsion, amounting almost to love.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  He dreaded with a repulsion almost of death, any further close human contact.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  Connie heard it all with deepening dismay and repulsion.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  I've had to do with fifty murderers in my career, but the worst of them never gave me the repulsion which I have for this fellow.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
9  Something of repulsion, buried deep beneath her cold thinking, stirred faintly and then was stilled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  And, for her penance, there would be the dreadful sight of Melanie's face changing from fond love and trust to incredulous horror and repulsion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LV
11  As was always the case with her, this moral repulsion found a physical outlet in a quickened distaste for her surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  Neither of them ever imagined that they were looked at with repulsion; if they had imagined it they would not have minded--so long as their superiors did not look at them in that way.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
13  Pierre, coming out into the corridor, looked with pity and repulsion at the half-crazy old man.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
14  Pierre was seized by a sense of horror and repulsion such as he had experienced when touching some nasty little animal.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
15  She did not remonstrate, except again to repulse him quietly but firmly.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence:
1  Even defensive battles distressed her, for the repulsion of enemy forces is never accomplished bloodlessly.
2  Do not, for one repulse, give up the purpose that you resolved to effect.
3  Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effect.
4  Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effort.
5  Do not, for one repulse, forgot the purpose that you resolved to effort.
6  Do nor for one repulse, for go the purpose that you resolved to effort.
7  Do not, for one repulse, forgo the purpose that you resolved to effor.
8  He had to repulse the suggestion because it gave him no room to live.
9  Your plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.
10  In physics, magnetism is one of the phenomena by which materials exert attractive or repulsive forces on other materials.