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Repelled in sentence

50 examples of Repelled in a sentence

You could fly 100 Ph.D. students under the umbrella of this concept, because my supposition is that entomopathogenic fungi, prior to sporulation, attract the very insects that are otherwise repelled by those spores.
Our Todai Robot works similarly, but a bit smarter in answering history yes-no questions, like, "'Charlemagne repelled the Magyars.'
Our robot starts producing a factoid question, like: "Charlemagne repelled [this person type]" by itself.
You're either repelled by it, or you're struck with a lightning bolt of excitement.
It startled, then bored, then repelled me.
Young student falls for woman of the world and is repelled by learning of her past, rejects her, takes her back, rejects her.... you get the picture.
Chaplin, too, is quite nice as the detective who is both attracted and repelled by the forceful Cassie.
And don't read the back of the box as it made it out like there were flesh eating zombies attacking the town, there isn't...only a small scene where three or four zombies attack a house and are so easily repelled they are not a factor in the movie at all and their scene is rather pointless.
When Kei loses the one friend he has he gives up until he meets Sho, an orphan boy who is not repelled by his true nature.
I had no idea who Robert Crumb was (all I knew was that he created "Fritz the Cat") and I find underground comics repulsive but I was never bored or repelled by this movie.
It was interesting to watch her simultaneously be attracted and repelled.
Instead of playing Curley's wife as the pathetic yet lonely and almost unconsciously sexy woman that Sherilynn Fenn made her in the 1992 film, Betty Field makes her obnoxiously slutty, whiny, loud and shrill, and we are annoyed and repelled at her instead of being made to empathize with her plight.
The Forty-Year Palestinian TragedyForty years ago, Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights after a lightning six-day war that repelled the armies of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
At the same time, he led a broad United Nations-backed coalition that repelled Saddam Hussein’s aggression against Kuwait.
Moreover, even if mosquitoes become resistant to the killing effects of DDT, they are still repelled by it.
Salafi support for Aboul Fotouh, a moderate former MB leader, proved to be a double-edged sword, because it repelled many liberals and socialists who would have voted for him otherwise.
Nationalist Chinese remember imperial Russia’s conquests, while many Russians have a morbid fear of the “yellow peril,” even though the Mongols conquered and reigned in China, while they were eventually repelled from Russia (not to mention that the Chinese never invaded Russia).
It is repelled -- as are most Western intellectuals -- by the xenophobia of the party of territoriality.
Icarosaurus was rescued from the auction block by a philanthropic and conservation-minded businessman repelled by the thought that such valuable treasures could be lost to science and education.
But, instead of finding security and salvation from recession in a new era of dependence on government, most voters were repelled by such policies’ apparent failure to do much to improve the economy.
The Allies probably would have eventually won World War II even had the Nazis conquered Stalingrad, redistributed their spearhead forces as mobile reserves, repelled the Red Army’s subsequent winter 1942 offensive, and seized the Caucasus oil fields, thus depriving the Red Army of 90% of its motor fuel.
Given this, it seems likely that many in Macron’s administration take the European agreements very seriously, even too seriously, and are repelled by the idea of vigorous spending cuts, because their power is related to the size of the purse they control.
Ever since its great military victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, when it repelled the combined armies of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, which had openly proclaimed their desire to destroy the Jewish state, Israel has been in the throes of an ideological and military confusion resulting from the conquests it made during that conflict.
Now it seems to have repelled US efforts to force it into revaluing its currency.
The West repelled the Soviet Union’s military threat without conflict, thereby liberating its European empire to join the rest of a free continent.
The whole of her life, all her desires and hopes, were concentrated on this one man, still incomprehensible to her, to whom she was bound by a feeling – even more incomprehensible than the man himself – which now attracted and now repelled her.
The servants, the walls, the things in the house, all repelled and angered her, and oppressed her like a weight.
With a movement he repelled her.
But she would not be repelled; she forced him to throw down the axe, and drew him away by both arms, with irresistible strength.
The Réquillart lane was always full of drunken men; she went back to it, however, with the vague hope of meeting there him she had repelled a few hours earlier.