How to Use revulsion in a Sentence

revulsion

noun

• She was struck with revulsion at the sight of the dead animal.
• This year, 2021, might be the year to drop the revulsion.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
• Just as long as the movie shocked you or evoked a feeling of revulsion.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Sep. 2022
• That's the same revulsion the vile display at CPAC deserves from all of us.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022
• But here’s the thing: The film is built around the idea of revulsion and extreme consumption.
  — Vulture, 5 Sep. 2022
• Praise poured in from across the country for the men who tried to help the young girls, as well as revulsion at Christian's words.
  — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 27 May 2017
• Nausea stirred in the pit of her stomach, and her throat ached with revulsion.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• There is no good guy here: This is meant to inspire revulsion.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 23 July 2017
• The film is built around the idea of revulsion and extreme consumption.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• As Ellsberg read through the long account of the case in the Los Angeles Times, his revulsion and anger grew.
  — Jeff Stein, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2018
• Bo doesn't know what to believe, but soon enough, his revulsion turns to thoughts of commerce.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• There’s trepidation—and even a bit of revulsion—to meat grown in a lab.
  — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
• In some parts of the world, China’s appetite for donkey meat and hides is viewed with revulsion.
  — Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2018
• The tone of the film is coloured by the revulsion of a filmmaker recoiling from his subject.
  — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
• Like, every day, for months on end . . .) • Many of us have been following the case of Mikheil Saakashvili, with revulsion.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Apr. 2023
• Soon the Mist takes over his apartment and when others speak to him the Mist spills out their mouths, tinting their words with hate and revulsion.
  — Hazlitt, 3 Jan. 2023
• The first is the scale of popular revulsion at the return to naked military rule.
  — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
• Despite the messiness of the house and the revulsion you are made to feel for most of the characters onstage, this is a clean and crisp production.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• At times the raw power of that smell produced arousal, at other times revulsion.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2021
• For months, critics of this spectacle have made a great show of their revulsion.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
• But in that moment, Audrey’s revulsion, to say nothing of her bad-Asian guilt, were very much my own.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Merkel met with a small group in the upper chambers and talked about the complex feelings of revulsion and shame the attack had prompted.
  — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• Nevertheless, the op-ed was met with shock and revulsion across the Arab world, some of the West and in sections of social media.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Initial revulsion at heart transplants gave way in the face of success.
  — Jane Maienschein, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
• Over time, respect for Mr. Sadr’s militia among many Iraqis turned to revulsion.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 20 May 2018
• Dolly may have been cloned in Scotland, but the idea of human cloning is met with widespread revulsion here.
  — Misha Glenny, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2001
• What critics tend to miss, though, is that they're inspired by envy as well as revulsion.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022
• His cousin Osita, once as close as a brother, reacts at first with revulsion that will prove telling.
  — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2020
• These are just a few ideas that could get the Bears past the initial public revulsion to the proposal presented late last month.
  — David Greising, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2024
• Across the world, other leaders expressed revulsion and scorn toward the bomber.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024