Sentence examples for was repelled from inspiring English sources

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was repelled

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To turn (someone) away from a privilege, right, job, etc.

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"This was repelled immediately".

I was repelled, then transfixed.

Napoli went forward first and was repelled.

A first assault was repelled; others are likely to follow.

The attack was repelled, and no coalition forces died.

Nixon was repelled and, at some level, impressed.

He tried to sign Liverpool's Luis Suárez but was repelled.

At first I was repelled at this invasion of privacy.

He had resigned in 2008, largely because he was repelled by the torture of Islamists.

A landing of troops from India was repelled with ignominy by the Germans in November 1914.

Lampman was repelled by the mechanization of urban life and escaped to the countryside whenever possible.

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