REPELLENT in a Sentence

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51 example sentences for REPELLENT, such as:

1. No human can repel a firm hope.
2. Her first movement was repellent.
3. Two positive charges repel each other.
4. Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
5. This coat has a special surface that repels moisture.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPELLENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
repellent
 a.  driving away; unattractive; inspiring aversion or distaste
Classic Sentence: (40 in 3 pages)
1  She thought of all the things she might do--drive to Sheffield, pay visits, and the thought of all these things was repellent.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
2  His art was all tubes and valves and spirals and strange colours, ultra-modern, yet with a certain power, even a certain purity of form and tone: only Mellors thought it cruel and repellent.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  The very thought of Melanie having a child was repellent to Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  Everything within and around him seemed confused, senseless, and repellent.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I
5  Her first movement was repellent.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 16 IN WHICH M. SEGUIER, KEEPER OF THE SEALS, LOOKS MORE THAN ONCE FOR THE BELL
6  I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
7  Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
8  Mr. Dimmesdale gently repelled their entreaties.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE LEECH
9  The minister tremulously, but decidedly, repelled the old man's arm.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
10  I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5. I AM SENT AWAY FROM HOME
11  He simply seemed to be slightly displeased with her for that first midnight conversation, which she had repelled.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
12  After drinking a few sips she glanced at him, and by his expression, she saw clearly that he was repelled by her hand, and her gesture, and the sound made by her lips.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 25
13  He looked at her oddly, still inscrutable and as she hurried on she could not tell if he were amused or repelled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
15  He stood close to her, and the effrontery in his eyes repelled the old, vanishing self in her, yet drew all her awakening sensuousness.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
Example Sentence:
1  The sheep use it as a natural water repellent, which is lovely for them, but I found it to be sticky, oily.
2  Troops repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.
3  No human can repel a firm hope.
4  Two positive charges repel each other.
5  They have fifty thousand troops along the border ready to repel any attack.
6  Similar poles of magnets repel each other, and opposite poles attract.
7  Poles of the same name repel each other; poles of unlike name attract each other.
8  Thus ideas already in consciousness always repel the entry uncompatible idea and make entry of the congenial idea.
9  The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
10  This coat has a special surface that repels moisture.
11  For example, the defense of the skunk is a diabolic odor which repels its enemies.