How to use revulsion in a sentence

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• The sight triggered a string of revulsion in her.From the entry string
• But as he dressed the carcass—cutting it up to bring home—Borg’s gratitude gave way to revulsion.December 2020, Tim Folger, “North America’s most valuable resource is at risk”, in National Geographic Magazine. From the entry dress
• His eyes grew wide in revulsion when he realized what had just landed on him.2015, Marilee Jackson, chapter 37, in Midnight Runner, Springville, Utah: Sweetwater Books, →ISBN. From the entry gardyloo
• The memory came upon him like a geas, overwhelming his revulsion, numbing his heart.1980, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land, page 162. From the entry geas
• He inflated his chest, twirled his moustache, and thumped the table with a revulsion to thunderous indignation.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85. From the entry twirl
• The one thing that took him in revulsion back to England: Sunday dinner.1924, D. H. Lawrence, The Boy in the Bush. From the entry Sundayness
• Responses of people who are entomophobic involve terror, panic, and revulsion when encountering insects, followed by confusion and anxiety.2024 May, Vincent H. Resh, “Entomophobia”, in Chit Chat Club, page 3. From the entry entomophobic
• Curwen gazed at the 'clever, fussy, pretentious Victorian typefaces spread about his composing room floor' and felt a wave of revulsion.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 161. From the entry war effort
• In Latin America, the most dramatic results of discrimination have an element of aporophobia, that is, revulsion and hatred for the poor.2008, “Prejudice, discrimination and intergroup conflict”, in Actualidades en psicología, volume 22, number 109. From the entry aporophobia
• An aggressor experiences a revulsion to hurting his victim, but the discomfort cannot last forever, and eventually a reassuring, energizing counteremotion resets his equilibrium to neutral.2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 670. From the entry counteremotion
• Reminded of the Alban king’s descent from Silvius, the son of Aeneas, Vergil’s reader must judge the crime of Mettus and his gruesome punishment with greater horror and revulsion.1998, Robert Alan Gurval, Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War, University of Michigan Press, page 223. From the entry alban
• When historians evaluate the contribution of Generation X one theme will recur over and over again, and that is the rage and revulsion handed from Father to Son.1964, Charles Hamblett, Jane Deverson, Generation X, →OCLC, page 191. From the entry Generation X
• Because so many of the best utterances of men have been simply phrased, we inevitably respond with profound revulsion against linguistic combinations which are decentralized by multisyllabicity.1964, United States. Office of Education, Cooperative Research Program. From the entry multisyllabicity

Meaning of revulsion

1. noun Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
2. noun A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
3. noun The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.

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How do you use revulsion in a sentence?

Revulsion is used as a noun. For example: “The sight triggered a string of revulsion in her.”

What is a short sentence with revulsion?

“The sight triggered a string of revulsion in her.”

What does revulsion mean?

Revulsion means abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.