How to Use repulsion in a Sentence

repulsion

noun

• I read about what happened with a feeling of shock and repulsion.
• She felt a repulsion for politics.
• But a free Crimea is just as inevitable as the repulsion of Russian troops from Kyiv.
  — Time, 19 Jan. 2023
• That, in a nutshell, is both the attraction and the repulsion of the impostor.
  — Sadie Stein, Town & Country, 26 Feb. 2017
• Throughout the show, there’s a push-pull of attraction and repulsion.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• My repulsion towards my scars didn't stem from any sadness that my arm was gone.
  — Allure, 19 Apr. 2022
• In fact, this repulsion is the reason atoms don’t collapse, the reason matter is hard.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2021
• Preserve the good oils, and increase your dependence on it, instead of your repulsion to oil as a whole.
  — Adam Hurly, GQ, 8 Aug. 2017
• Despite my immediate repulsion to the song, it’s been stuck in my head my whole life.
  — Amy Wolff, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• But more often than not Ethridge knows how to make the balance between attraction and repulsion tip in his favor.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2022
• But now the pull is coupled with a powerful push — in other words, repulsion — that keeps us from being seduced.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2021
• First, any single dark matter particle has to have just the right self-repulsion to generate neutron stars with the right mass range.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2018
• Murphy’s live-in-concert repulsion fantasias belie a tenderness that resides at the core of some of his work.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• The use of King's sermon to sell trucks did not sit well with many viewers, who voiced reactions ranging from uneasiness to repulsion.
  — Josh Hafner, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2018
• This force has to be stronger than the electric repulsion between the various quarks, otherwise the proton would simply fly apart.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• Torn between her repulsion and attraction to the phantom, Christine will have to take control over her own destiny as a woman and as an artist.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• Benton drew from his own memories growing up in Texas, and the mix of affection for and repulsion toward the place that made him can be felt from beginning to end.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2021
• Benton drew from his own memories growing up in Texas, and the mix of affection for and repulsion toward the place that made him can be felt from beginning to end.
  — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2024
• The phrase, which is onomatopoeic, refers to a feeling of repulsion that suddenly crops up with a romantic partner.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2023
• But as emissions rise, the killjoys are resorting to shame and repulsion as weapons against environmental evils.
  — The Economist, 12 Dec. 2019
• The repulsion towards music that doesn’t directly speak to our specific point of view inevitably stifles the desire to engage with any kind of art in good faith.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Dec. 2022
• Even though the bodies’ were starting to deform and smell intensely, only one of the chimps ever reacted in a way that looked like repulsion (see video below).
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 26 Apr. 2010
• Another set of ideas posits that the spin occurs after scission consequent to forces such as repulsion between the protons in the fragments.
  — Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2021
• So much of loving dogs is learning to tolerate repulsion.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The push-pull tension between attraction and repulsion compels reflection on the ways in which fashion is inevitably about more than clothes.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• Max is relieved when this part is done, even as his expression never wavers from slapstick repulsion.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
• There’s a strange flirtation of anger, repulsion and attraction between [Cameron and Harper].
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2022
• There does seem to be a special, visceral repulsion among some voters toward the president.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 26 Dec. 2018
• But even people who do not usually defend Trump expressed repulsion at the image.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 31 May 2017
• This attraction or repulsion is a minimal sense of wanting or not wanting.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024