repulse

Example Sentences

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His malignity and psychopathology seem to attract followers when these same characteristics should repulse people.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

Troops from South Korea, the United States and other countries under the direction of the United Nations battle to repulse the invasion.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2023

Army vehicles used to repulse the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait were painted with a big white chevron, for example.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2022

Eastern Roman armies had to repulse threats and maintain the borders, but they did not face the overwhelming odds of their western Roman counterparts.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020

We returned to the schooner with our spoils, as we feared that the owner of the place even then sought out his neighbors to repulse us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson