REVULSION in a Sentence

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She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness.

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 Meanings and Examples of REVULSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
revulsion
 n.  sudden strong change or reaction in feeling, especially a feeling of violent disgust
Classic Sentence:
1  She looked down at the body again and now revulsion came over her as her rage and fright melted away, and her knees began to quiver with the reaction.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  Then the black hand fumbled between her breasts, and terror and revulsion such as she had never known came over her and she screamed like an insane woman.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
3  Gerty's first movement was one of revulsion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant and self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable revulsion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
5  Then gradually smart society realized that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin street-rat, and revulsion came.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  Connie had a revulsion in the opposite direction now.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief; and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
9  There was evidently coming over him that revulsion that would make him look upon death as the goal of his desires, as happiness.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
10  At this point there was a revulsion in my heart too.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IX
11  On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In III
Example Sentence:
1  I turned away in revulsion when they showed a close-up of the operation.
2  The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
3  The dreadful events of 11th September have filled people throughout the world with a revulsion for terrorism, whatever its aims.