Sentence examples for that repelled from inspiring English sources

It was the hard tapering tip of this alien muscle, quiveringly alive, that repelled her.

Out went the leaky buckets, torn row covers, left-hand gloves with no mates and stinky mosquito sprays that repelled nothing but people.

"He had a style about him that repelled rather than won, and yielded a reluctant obedience to his orders," stated the company historian.

Set off by rope lines, Secret Service agents and lecterns, Gore was running the sort of imperial campaign that repelled the state's cosseted voters.

He spent most of the next decade leading Thai armies in the field that repelled the Burmese and established Siamese suzerainty over Laos, Cambodia, and the northern Malay states.

But it's considerably easier if you can contrast yourself with an adversary who embodies the kind of outdated politics, ideological rigidity or divisiveness that repelled those voters in the first place.

Repellents are volatile chemicals that repel insects (1, 2, 3).

"Football stadiums are dogs that repel economic activity.

Together these advances solve longstanding challenges in creating commercially useful materials that repel almost everything.

I also wear special pants, shirts and socks that repel insects.

I have heard there is a kind of soup that repels them.