How to Use repulsive in a Sentence

repulsive

adjective

• Magnets have a repulsive effect on each other.
• The greater the overlap, the greater the repulsive spring force.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 17 Dec. 2021
• What Trump forces did to them, in the wake of the 2020 election, was repulsive.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 28 July 2023
• In this world both saints & lovers look grotesque and repulsive.
  — Stephen Mirarchi, National Review, 28 Dec. 2019
• The repulsive fog of exhaust fumes mingles with the scent of grass in the humid night air.
  — Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The very notion of such a pursuit seems repulsive to some.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• The point of the zombie genre is that humans are strange, repulsive, and ridiculous.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• This means the attractive force between the pen and the electron is greater than the repulsive force between the pen and the proton.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 28 Jan. 2022
• The physician must have at his command a certain ready wit, as dourness is repulsive both to the healthy and the sick.
  — Gavin Francis, The New York Review of Books, 23 May 2019
• Jadin notes with a laugh that once the mighty, high-cost lobster was deemed so repulsive in the West that it was fed to prisoners.
  — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 19 May 2021
• What is repulsive in one part of the world, in another is simply lunch.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 4 June 2019
• Nothing kills the vibe like a heavy application; even the best scent can be repulsive in too large a dose.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
• Rivest shared on Twitter that her loved ones also found the man's actions to be repulsive.
  — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2019
• That comment is one of the most repulsive comments made by a President of the United States in decades.
  — Karly Matthews, Seventeen, 17 Aug. 2017
• In Britain, his power has only grown since the 2011 phone-hacking scandal that brought down his repulsive tabloid News of the World.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2021
• The same agenda that’s so repulsive to the campaigners has drawn praise from President Trump and much of his base.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 30 Mar. 2018
• One tip: Place citrus peels in the soil, since felines find their scent fairly repulsive.
  — Courtney Vinopal, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• Both Lewandowski and Trump maligned Michelle in the most repulsive fashion.
  — Prachi Gupta, Cosmopolitan, 14 Mar. 2016
• Calle’s work is always a bit emotionally repulsive, too close to the bone, too deeply felt.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 11 May 2017
• And at this point, after a few minutes of observation, the words that come to mind are no longer repulsive and nightmare, but small and dear and friend.
  — Alex Mar, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2017
• Even those who found his words repulsive were mesmerized by him.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• Harwell sings along as Shrek showers in mud, brushes his teeth with a bug and kills a fish with his farts — a gleeful outsider, and a repulsive one at that.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Neither is Jabba the Hutt, who’s repulsive in every way.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2019
• Rent-seeking is lucrative, which is why there is so much of it, even when its pedigree is repulsive.
  — George F. Will, The Denver Post, 17 June 2017
• But the same repulsive scents are magnets for skunks, raccoons, rats, flies, and a lot of other wild critters, and even for a few neighborhood pets.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 June 2021
• But people who are strong and in power find weakness repulsive.
  — Kevin Wilson, Time, 28 Oct. 2019
• The Frog brothers must prevent a vampire from unleashing an army of his repulsive ilk.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• To me, these details were both intriguing and repulsive.
  — Okwiri Oduor, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• One question still remains unanswered, however: When micrometer-sized objects move toward each other in the water, a repulsive force is created, so the protruding neck should cause the prey to drift away.
  — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 14 June 2024
• Astronomers can then sort the growth of galactic clustering strength over time to track the competition between the gravitational attraction of matter and the repulsive effect of dark energy.
  — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024