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How to use repellent in a sentence

20 example sentences · adjective, noun

Repellent means repulsive, inspiring aversion. Example: “The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me.”

Examples of repellent by meaning

adjectiveRepulsive, inspiring aversion.

  • The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me.
  • Many aspects of it are destructive and repellant.1978 December 23, Michael Bronski, “Notes and Thoughts by One Gay Man on Pornography and Censorship”, in Gay Community News, volume 6...

adjectiveResistant or impervious to something.

  • All that fabric's supposed to be dust-repellent.

adjectiveTending or able to repel; driving back.

  • These particles exercise a-highly repellent force.

nounA substance or solution used to repel insects, dangerous animals, or other pests.

  • None of the mosquito repellents we've tried work.

nounA substance or treatment for a fabric etc to make it impervious to something.

  • They applied dirt repellent to the sports car.

More sentences with repellent

  • Binding a repellent at these receptors is believed to cause increased autophosphorylating activity of the CheA kinase.2015 July 10, Lixing Huang et al., “Identification and characterization of three Vibrio alginolyticus non-coding RNAs involved in…. From the entry autophosphorylating
  • McCarthy and asked why he had written a book about such a repellent character, he was glib.2013 October 11, Alexandra Alter, “Literary Giant Obsessed by Movies”, in The Wall Street Journal, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2015. From the entry glib
  • He had becoms full of Bay intelligence about mosquito repellent measures.2012, Susan Kurosawa, Coasting: A Year by the Bay, unnumbered page. From the entry mossie
  • Glimpses of Dad’s nakedness under bathrobe or up boxer-short leg became illicit, both repellent and magnetic.2004, Judith Levine, Do You Remember Me?: A Father, a Daughter, and a Search for the Self, Free Press, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry boxer-short
  • Their scent is lacerating and repellent, it smells of burning snow, of hot-ache.1917, D. H. Lawrence, Look! We have come Through!. From the entry hot ache
  • "Don't you know, you giaour dog, the thing e'en more repellent than swineflesh to a virtuous daughter of Islam?1943, Edison Marshall, Great Smith: Issue 689. From the entry swineflesh
  • So with the fruit, the rich flavor of the white oak acorns is inviting, the meracious bitterness of the others is repellent.2011, Winthrop Packard, Forests and Fields Through the Year, page 343. From the entry meracious
  • A more repellent personality would be hard to imagine, and yet Hedda Gabler is one of the eternal fascinators of the world stage.2009 January 18, Charles Isherwood, “Hedda Forever: An Antiheroine for the Ages”, in New York Times. From the entry fascinator
  • Though neither I nor my tripmates could tolerate full-body attire during Cambodia’s humid, 90-plus-degree days, we all doused ourselves daily with repellent.2008 May 13, Jane E. Brody, “Mosquito Thrives; So Does Dengue Fever”, in New York Times. From the entry tripmate
  • A row of monitors projected women modelling bathing suits—the high-cut versions which, I don’t know about you, but I find slightly repellent.1999 November 29, Jeffrey Moore, chapter 20, in Prisoner in a Red-Rose Chain, Saskatoon, Sask.: Thistledown Press, →ISBN, page 261. From the entry unaestheticness
  • Nothing is wasted— leaves are used to make baskets, the juice of the jagua fruit is applied as a mosquito repellent, and the river provides fresh water for bathing.2009, Crandell, Rachel, Hands of the rainforest : the emberá people of Panama, page n1. From the entry jagua
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, oil of lemon eucalyptus is one of the most effective mosquito repellents, along with DEET and picaridin.2008 June 24, Anahad O’Connor, “The Claim: Listerine Can Ward Off a Swarm of Mosquitoes”, in New York Times. From the entry picaridin
  • The references to the lady's long-standing affection for her loyal, high-born servant girl provide a succinct intimation that the lady herself is not a wholly repellent character.1996, Peter F. Ainsworth, "'The Letter Killeth': Law and Spirit in Marie De France's Lay of Le Fresne," French Studies, volume L, no. 1…. From the entry highborn
  • For all beautiful things, no matter how fanciful, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, true; and all true things, no matter how repellent, are somehow, somewhen, somewhence, beautiful.1910, “Volume 50”, in Good Housekeeping Magazine, Indiana University, published 2008, page 157. From the entry somewhence

Meaning of repellent

  1. adjective Repulsive, inspiring aversion.
  2. adjective Resistant or impervious to something.
  3. adjective Tending or able to repel; driving back.

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Questions about repellent in a sentence

How do you use repellent in a sentence?
Repellent is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The mixture of whey, beetroot juice, and spirulina seems repellent to me.”
What is a short sentence with repellent?
“These particles exercise a-highly repellent force.”
What does repellent mean?
Repellent means repulsive, inspiring aversion.

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