Sentence examples for repulse in from inspiring English sources

The unluckier fifth sister, the Prince of Wales, lasted only 10 months before Japanese torpedo bombers sank her and the battle-cruiser Repulse in the South China Sea in December 1941, three days after Pearl Harbor.

Herodotus was writing within living memory of an event so epic that it continues to thrill and astonish to this day: the repulse in 480BC of a full-scale invasion of Greece, led by the King of Persia, Xerxes.

Harold Pinter's superbly controlled, elliptical, menacing dialogue is able to hint, to imply, to seduce, to repulse, in precisely the manner that gay men were forced to adopt in 1963, when homosexuality was still a criminal offence, and when representing homosexuality on screen was forbidden.

Another Dahomeyan attack was repulsed in 1864.

But their advance was repulsed in the capital's suburbs, largely by Zimbabwean troops.

Geographic factors rendered the capital impregnable, and two Chinese attacks were repulsed in 751 and 754.

A fresh attempt to win back Egypt was repulsed in 351.

It was here the Prussians were repulsed in 1792 by the French at Valmy and where U.S. forces swept over the Germans (Meuse-Argonne Offensive) in 1918.

Hood inaugurated a series of premature offensive battles at Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Ezra Church, and Jonesboro, but he was repulsed in each of them.

Time after time, his troops' try to cut the city's only lifeline, its access to the sea, are repulsed in fierce street fighting.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — More than 100 Taliban militants attacked a checkpoint in a tribal region in northwest Pakistan early Monday, Pakistani military and security officials said, firing rockets and mortars before being repulsed in a long gun battle.