Sentence examples for repelled in a from inspiring English sources

And then came Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, when another of their perceived deficiencies — an offense overly reliant on home runs — was repelled in a barrage of doubles, sacrifice flies and groundouts.

Yet Pakistani authorities deployed just several hundred poorly paid and equipped constabulary forces to Buner, who were repelled in a clash with the insurgents, leaving one police officer dead.

Balthus puts me in two minds, attracted and repelled, in search of a third.

An effort by protesters to defy the curfew was repelled in part by residents of Abbasiya, a stronghold of support for Mubarak and the military.

None materialized, repelled, in part, by feudal-style corruption.

Australia had been repelled in the first Test and themselves humbled in the second.

Some are repelled, in fact, by his acceptance of the more dubious aspects of urban life.

The invading spider was repelled in only 7.5% of the trials, and the intruding spider was never killed.

The Ottomans succeeded in repelling it in a series of actions that lasted until December 22, and even gained some ground, albeit at the cost of high casualties which depleted their numbers to some 26,000 men.

Sealants and unpainted surfaces like spackle patches will absorb or repel moisture in a topcoat at a different level than the areas surrounding them.

They attract and repel in roughly equal measure.