Sentence examples for repelled him from inspiring English sources

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Their present uselessness repelled him.

Still, Ukrainian nationalism repelled him as a primitive peasant throwback.

I wonder if he sensed my eagerness and it repelled him.

Academic training repelled him, however, and other enthusiasms — in literature, music, and languages — dispersed his energies.

The usually ambrosial smell of tractor fuel repelled him, and the towering green shape above him now seemed reproachful.

He had never set foot in Communist territory, and the prospect of crossing the border repelled him.

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My question appeared to repel him.

The red bean in the rice balls repels him.

Laws like Proposition 8 repel him primarily because they are a form of licensed hostility.

She worries that her androgynous body will repel him as it had a previous lover.

In fact, romantic notions of a natural world defined by innocence and harmony repel him.

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