repelling

How To Use repelling In A Sentence

• But he knew he would be like a stranger to her, a strange man with a repellingly scarred face. The Hidden Places
• Peters is hard at work repelling the attackers, thrilled, he claims, to be a contrarian again.
• France would then have as much interest in repelling Russia as we have. The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
• At this crisis, Wallace with a band of resolute men, sprang from the tower upon the wall; and it being almost deserted by its late guards, (who had quitted their post to assist in repelling the foe below), he leaped into the midst of the conflict, and the battle became general. The Scottish Chiefs
• He was hard at work on his magnum opus: a painting, six feet tall, of the Savior's slaughter on the cross, a feral Pollockian image simultaneously repelling and exhilarating; the colors clamored in crimsons and yellows, blacks and speckled, blue blots.
• It is by endless subdivisions based upon the most inconclusive differences, that some departments of natural history become so repellingly intricate. Moby Dick; or the Whale
• The scene which appears most frequently in art shows the cook repelling boarders, beating off the tasters and nibblers who hover hopefully round his precious stewpot.
• Guests received Ear Charms, ear-cuff jewelry that wraps on the ear without piercing or clipping, glasses with magnetized clip-on shades by Chemistrie, bath products for pets by I Heart Pet Head, mosquito repelling candles from Bite-Lite. Zorianna Kit: 2012 Grammy Awards Gifting Suites
• The painful and even dangerous rite of circumcision was alone capable of repelling a willing proselyte from the door of the synagogue. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• “They are not mine,” said the amiable hostess, more repellingly than Heathcliff himself could have replied. Wuthering Heights