REPUGNANCE in a Sentence
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45 example sentences for REPUGNANCE, such as:
1. I find his political ideas totally repugnant.
2. The idea of accepting a bribe is repugnant to me.
3. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
4. I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
5. I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that dirty story.
2. The idea of accepting a bribe is repugnant to me.
3. The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
4. I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
5. I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that dirty story.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of REPUGNANCE
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repugnance
n. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
n. intense aversion
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1 My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic, and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances.
2 I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.
3 At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired.
4 The abhorrence in which I held the man, the dread I had of him, the repugnance with which I shrank from him, could not have been exceeded if he had been some terrible beast.
5 Enough, that I saw my own feelings reflected in Herbert's face, and not least among them, my repugnance towards the man who had done so much for me.
6 And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7 Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors.
8 They were no sooner gone, than Monks, who appeared to entertain an invincible repugnance to being left alone, called to a boy who had been hidden somewhere below.
9 Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
10 Then I saw the horror and repugnance of his face, and all of a sudden I let him go.
11 But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial.
12 Lily knew people who "lived like pigs," and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence.
13 The little flame under his hand cast a deeper crimson on his puffing face, and Lily averted her eyes with a momentary feeling of repugnance.
14 His voice had a note of conjugal familiarity: Miss Bart fancied she detected in Rosedale's eye a twinkling perception of the fact, and the idea turned her dislike of him to repugnance.
15 The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with repugnance.
Example Sentence:
1 I can still recall my repugnance when I was told that dirty story.
2 I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.
3 The idea of accepting a bribe is repugnant to me.
4 I find his political ideas totally repugnant.
5 The odour of vitamin in skin is repugnant to insects.
6 She found the snake repugnant and looked on it with loathing and fear.