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Repel in sentence

45 examples of Repel in a sentence

The first one was that when helium atoms touch each other, they repel.
And since we all smell different and produce chemicals on our skin that either attract or repel mosquitoes, some of us are just more attractive than others.
Finally, Richard Feynman, famous physicist, once wrote that if human civilization were destroyed and you could pass only a single concept on to our descendants to help them rebuild civilization, that concept should be that all matter around us is made out of tiny elements that attract each other when they're far apart but repel each other when they're close together.
Nuclear radiation, on the other hand, originates in the atomic nucleus, where protons repel each other due to their mutually positive charges.
Now after sporulation, the spores repel.
So this would actually repel the rider a little bit as you're going down.
They repel.
How does nature repel bacteria?
And you push them together and they repel.
So, most of the time they repel.
The direction, screenplay, acting , and editing work together to repel your eyes from the screen.
It could repel enemy fire, do all sorts of acrobatics in the air, and take down nearly anything in it's way.
In other words, they began to repel audiences through mere mention.
The director Mr.Shear doesn't use violence to excite or repel the viewers.
Although electrons are negatively charged, and therefore repel one another, the positive ions that they leave behind when they flow through a metal can mediate an effective attraction between two electrons under restrictive conditions (for example, the metal must be very cold).
Those who feel comfortable with the status quo would do well to heed the conclusion Representative Abraham Lincoln reached at the end of the Mexican-American War: “Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
It will take firm support and generous assistance to give Ukraine the chance to repel Russian aggression and join the community of democratic, liberal, and prosperous countries.
In 2006, after roughly 50 million preventable deaths, the United Nations’ World Health Organization reversed course and endorsed the use of DDT to kill and repel Anopheles mosquitoes.
The problem is that fusion involves joining two positively charged nuclei – and, as basic science shows, same-sign charges repel each other.
Building some 300,000 bunkers to repel an invasion by the West had perhaps been more than a little paranoid.
These nets cover people while they sleep, and repel or kill the mosquitoes, which tend to bite during the night.
In August 1939, an Anglo-French military delegation traveled to Moscow, where the head of the Soviet delegation, Defense Minister Kliment Voroshilov, asked the Western officers a simple question: would the Polish government agree to the entry of Soviet troops, which would be necessary to repel a German invasion?
Only French military support helped repel the Russians and save Poland’s independence.
Numerous jobs fall into that category: cyber criminals and the cyber experts employed by companies to repel their attacks; lawyers (both personal and corporate); much of financial trading and asset management; tax accountants and revenue officials; advertising and marketing to build brand X at the expense of brand Y; rival policy campaigners and think tanks; even teachers seeking to ensure that their students achieve the higher relative grades that underpin future success.
The Saudis, bogged down in a proxy war with Iran in neighboring Yemen, are elated that Trump is contemplating an increase in assistance to repel Iranian encroachment from their strategic backyard.
But, even more serious, unbeknownst to the Americans, Soviet forces in Cuba had been instructed to repel a US invasion, and had been authorized to use their tactical nuclear weapons to do so.
Because strategic competitors like China and India have already identified the human-capital potential of Africa’s youth, Europe must move quickly to attract and retain – rather than repel – African professionals.
In the justification of armed conflict, everyone agrees that the defending state may use all necessary force to repel an aggressor.
Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible.
Although radical-left economic proposals do attract new voters on the left, they repel substantially more voters on the right.