Sentence examples for repulsed for from inspiring English sources

The Austro-Russian cavalry was finally broken and repulsed for good.

This attack was repulsed for the loss of two Australians killed and two wounded.

With the Allies repulsed for a second time the exultant Bavarian grenadiers, with bayonets fixed, poured over their breastworks to pursue the attackers and drive them to defeat.

But Lawson the novelist must find a way to hold his readers' interest, even if they are repulsed by, for example, Max and Jonny's ironic bellowing of Pulp's "Common People" (their party piece), or snide Simon's sexual rejection of Tash in favour of internet porn, or the low-level but insistent racism they all display in the company of Monifa, the black wife of a local venture capitalist.

There are varying degrees of fancy dress: there is the stupid (anyone dressed in a thick Scooby Doo suit on one of the hottest days of the year), the surreal (one chap came as a breaking wave, his little blue face peeking through a hole in his papier mache surf) and the slightly homophobic (a bloke encased in a 'kissing booth' plying his lips for free was repulsed when I tried for a snog).

She, however, had to be the one who finally took my limp hand into hers; and I became very much aware that she knew and either felt repulsed or sorry for me".

Gian Gastone's wife repulsed him, and for that reason, they separated in 1708.

After the ambush by the 2nd Company, 101st SS Heavy Panzer Battalion and loss of Point 213, the 22nd Armoured Brigade group had repulsed every German for two days, Students of the battle have looked to the senior commanders involved to explain the "fumbled failure" at Villers-Bocage.

"Are they so repulsed by equal pay for hardworking women that they'll obstruct equal pay for equal work?" he said Wednesday before the vote.

Further Japanese attacks near the Matanikau on 26 October were also repulsed with heavy losses for the Japanese.

Ichiki's assault was repulsed with devastating losses for the attackers in what became known as the Battle of the Tenaru: all but 128 of the 917 men of the First Element were killed in the battle.