REVULSION in a Sentence
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14 example sentences for REVULSION, such as:
1. Gerty's first movement was one of revulsion.
2. At this point there was a revulsion in my heart too.
3. Connie had a revulsion in the opposite direction now.
4. The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
5. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.
2. At this point there was a revulsion in my heart too.
3. Connie had a revulsion in the opposite direction now.
4. The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
5. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.
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Meanings and Examples of REVULSION
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revulsion
n. sudden strong change or reaction in feeling, especially a feeling of violent disgust
Classic Sentence:
1 She looked down at the body again and now revulsion came over her as her rage and fright melted away, and her knees began to quiver with the reaction.
2 Then the black hand fumbled between her breasts, and terror and revulsion such as she had never known came over her and she screamed like an insane woman.
3 Gerty's first movement was one of revulsion.
4 Upon opening my eyes then, and coming out of my own pleasant and self-created darkness into the imposed and coarse outer gloom of the unilluminated twelve-o'clock-at-night, I experienced a disagreeable revulsion.
5 Then gradually smart society realized that it had been made ridiculous at the hands of a down-at-heel Dublin street-rat, and revulsion came.
6 She had a revulsion against the whole affair, and almost envied the Guthrie girls their gawky inexperience and crude maidenliness.
7 Connie had a revulsion in the opposite direction now.
8 He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief; and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty.
9 There was evidently coming over him that revulsion that would make him look upon death as the goal of his desires, as happiness.
10 At this point there was a revulsion in my heart too.
11 On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient.
Example Sentence:
1 I turned away in revulsion when they showed a close-up of the operation.
2 The punishment should adequately reflect the revulsion felt by most people for this appalling crime.
3 The dreadful events of 11th September have filled people throughout the world with a revulsion for terrorism, whatever its aims.