Sentence examples for it repels from inspiring English sources
Its ugliness seduces as much as it repels and entertains.
Very cautiously I submit that part of the exceptionalism of the Third Reich lies in its unyieldingness, the electric severity with which it repels our contact and our grip.
In a footnote at the end of the novel, Martin Amis cautiously explains the appeal of the subject matter, "that part of the exceptionalism of the Third Reich lies in its unyieldingness, the electric severity with which it repels our contact and our grip".
Like many institutions, it repels millions of attempted attacks on its information systems each day.
In its very structure this majority is 'closed', petrified; it repels a priori any change other than changes within the system.
Silly, mean, angry, poetic, self-promotional, inane, profound — it fascinated me even as it repelled me.
I wonder if he sensed my eagerness and it repelled him.
Ukraine says it repelled a detachment of Russian troops in southern Ukraine, north of Crimea.
But it repelled gold bugs and, as the gold price rose ever higher, it hurt the miners' profits, too.
