REPUGNANCE in a Sentence

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45 example sentences for REPUGNANCE, such as:

1. I find his political ideas totally repugnant.
2. The idea of accepting a bribe is repugnant to me.
3. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
4. I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
5. I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that dirty story.

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 Meanings and Examples of REPUGNANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
repugnance
 n.  extreme dislike or aversion; opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
3  At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
4  The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
5  Enough, that I saw my own feelings reflected in Herbert's face, and not least among them, my repugnance towards the man who had done so much for me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLI
6  And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  They were no sooner gone, than Monks, who appeared to entertain an invincible repugnance to being left alone, called to a boy who had been hidden somewhere below.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
10  Then I saw the horror and repugnance of his face, and all of a sudden I let him go.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
11  But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
14  His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
15  The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with repugnance.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE
Example Sentence:
1  I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that dirty story.
2  I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
3  The idea of accepting a bribe is repugnant to me.
4  I find his political ideas totally repugnant.
5  The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
6  She found the snake repugnant and looked on it with loathing and fear.