Sentence examples for repel death from inspiring English sources
About Warhol's painting, Koestenbaum writes, "each image, while hoping to repel death, engineers its erotic arrival".
What can be done when one has only secondhand Dushka machine guns to repel the heavily armed death brigades that pillaged Saddam Hussein's arsenals in Mosul?
And I don't see why people who are repelled by the death penalty rejoice in the beheading of a king.
Performed in white makeup, Butoh expresses states of transition — taut hands revolving and thrusting, and a sudden crumpling torso appear to invite death and then to repel it.
Mr. Harris's lawyers also plan to argue that the macabre circumstances of death row convinced Mr. Harris that the only way to repel Mr. Simons's attack was to kill him.
Iran's leaders are so desperate to repel a rising tide of popular unrest that even Ashura — which marks the death of Shiite Islam's holiest martyr — is no longer sacred.
And so, ask the families, were the men sent to their deaths in ignorance of a threat that they would have struggled to repel?
That one they also repel.
