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How to use repulsion in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Repulsion means the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled. Example: “Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech.”

Examples of repulsion by meaning

nounAn extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.

  • Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  • Her voice was friendly enough, but Pincher wasn’t so exhausted or bonkers that he couldn’t see the cold repulsion of her eye.1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 38

More sentences with repulsion

  • Compression shortens the O:H nonbond and lengthens the H-O bond simultaneously via O:H-O Coulomb repulsion.2015, Chang Q. Sun, “Why does pressure melt ice?”, in arXiv. From the entry nonbond
  • A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Mass Accelerators Codex entry. From the entry slug
  • When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation.2000, Dashka Slater, The Wishing Box, page 6. From the entry furfuraceous
  • It is what's called repulsion, one of the forces most commonly employed in pyroballogy.1985, Kris Hemensley, editor, The Best of The Ear: The Ear in a Wheatfield 1973–76: A Portrait of a Magazine, Melbourne, Vic.: Rigmarole…. From the entry pyroballogy
  • I see no way of accounting for that in terms of notions like attraction and repulsion.1976 June 8–9, John Searle, “Mind and Language”, in W. J[ames] Megaw, editor, Prospects for Man: Communication, Toronto, Ont.: The Centre…. From the entry disattract
  • He put out his hand with repulsion; it lay like a cold paddock on her knee.1938, Graham Greene, chapter 3, in Brighton Rock, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 111. From the entry paddock
  • Binding is however favoured by the non-salt dependent free energy, the ion-release cratic free energy and by decreased ion-ion repulsion.1999, K. Zakrzewska, R. Lavery, “Modelling DNA-protein interactions”, in Computational Molecular Biology, edited by J. Leszczynski, →ISBN. From the entry cratic
  • The plot takes us through the "sleaze pits", the lower West Side leather bars, which Travis notes with undue repulsion.1979 April 28, Eric Rofes, “New Yech, New Yech”, in Gay Community News, page 14. From the entry pit
  • A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor.1956 September, Poul Anderson, “Margin of Profit”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 58, number 1, page 58. From the entry pressor beam
  • Because the factors conditioning edge repulsion of the pitch peak are relatively weak at the left edge, it is not surprising that peninitial prominence is rare cross-linguistically.2014, Matthew Gordon, “Disentangling stress and pitch-accent: a typology of prominence at different prosodic levels”, in Harry van der…. From the entry peninitial

Meaning of repulsion

  1. noun The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  2. noun An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
  3. noun The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

Full definition of repulsion

Questions about repulsion in a sentence

How do you use repulsion in a sentence?
Repulsion is used as a noun. For example: “Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech.”
What is a short sentence with repulsion?
“A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion.”
What does repulsion mean?
Repulsion means the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.

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