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    Use "repellent" in a sentence

    repellent example sentences

    repellent


    1. “What is beautiful about my father is that he believes everything on that label,” says Ralph, who says that way back when, he suggested his father’s soap - of which the uses range from shampoo to toothpaste, laundry cleaner to bug repellent, and plant cleaner to body message (though customers swear there are hundreds more uses) -something catchy like ‘Mint Glow’


    2. I know you're here on business and I know I'm not the sweetest cuddle-person in the world, but it hurts to think I'm so repellent that you can't stand any contact with me


    3. Ugly, inhumane, repellent


    4. Change it after six washes or wash it in Mosquito repellent


    5. I was very grateful that I had some of my brother’s famous repellent in my pack


    6. the effort of applying the repellent, as it was at this


    7. the aerosol can of insect repellent and sprayed it


    8. So yes, I can understand how the idea of giving up one’s ghost on a daily basis would be repellent


    9. Most people are repellent without their clothes


    10. Now, have we a first aid kit? Drinking water? Mobile phones? Insect repellent? Do we all know each other‘s numbers? If we split up what‘s the procedure? Sebastian says the place is surrounded by scrubby forest; that means snakes and stones and lantana and thorn bushes

    11. Five minutes later they were sensibly dressed, splashed with insect repellent, and each carried a bottle of water and a bag of mixed dried fruit and nuts


    12. Especially as he was repellent! There’s no way I’m going to tell anyone I’m gay


    13. Such scenes were not so shocking to Indians, but they were repellent to an idealistic Hebrew


    14. Bugs that had survived the chemical warfare, that were chemically altered and resisted our mosquito repellent


    15. For himself, its glittering blue splendor was more repellent than the leafy fronds which rustled and whispered behind him of vast mysterious wilds beyond them, and into which he must plunge


    16. This dais stood in a great, dim room whose walls were hung with dusky tapestries across which crawled dragons reproduced with repellent realism


    17. He was built with an economy that was almost repellent


    18. Without his purple robe the man seemed less like a prince than some repellent beast of prey


    19. Olmec was as tall as Conan, and heavier; but there was something repellent about the Tlazitlan, something abysmal and monstrous that contrasted unfavorably with the clean-cut, compact hardness of the Cimmerian


    20. At this door stood a fat repellent figure, dangling a bunch of keys—Tsotha's chief eunuch, Shukeli, of whom grisly tales were whispered—a man with whom a bestial lust for torture took the place of normal human passions

    21. The very name was a symbol of repellent horror among the northern nations, and legends hinted that the Stygians did not build them; that they were in the land at whatever immeasurably ancient date the dark-skinned people came into the land of the great river


    22. With that, you should bring a mosquito repellent, so that you can prevent them from biting you


    23. repellent coat, I guess


    24. May Ling; however, found the unexpected closeness of his body repellent


    25. At other times, we realize that the truth is difficult to obtain and maybe it’s time for ETC repellent


    26. “Jeff assured me this insect repellent will get rid of it


    27. themselves that the organization they work for finds repellent, they


    28. island, they all had to have oil massages as the repellent had removed all


    29. Scratch the skin of an orange and leave it out; the citrus acts as a repellent


    30. Then, cover yourself in insect repellent or keep those mosquitoes out with netting to stop yourself being bitten next time

    31. large tin sprayers of mosquito repellent would go around spraying the area


    32. “It’s bug repellent, courtesy of Mother Nature


    33. I also stunk to high heaven because in order to keep all man-eating spiders away, I was forced to lather up in Jack’s termite juice/insect repellent


    34. Their aggressive ugliness, and cold, repellent service keeping the congealed sinner at arm's length, nearly drove my mother into the Roman Church, a place no previous Watson had ever wanted to go to


    35. “How about sleeping bags, a propane stove, freeze-dried food, insect repellent, a tent, a flashlight for starters


    36. To structure and bind existence in a system of laws and submit oneself to them — this was repellent to him


    37. 30 kilometres away - to grab a can of insect repellent sold at RM0


    38. “As for me, I’m bringing my best Canadian repellent


    39. Beauty is such an ethereal, intangible quality; one often wondered why such a face while not in the least repellent was not in the least congenial


    40. When the relationship becomes monotonous, there is the same confession of failure as when day-by-day happenings grow stale and repellent

    41. Oils are a water repellent substance that traps moisture inside the hair shafts


    42. With all Avdotya Romanovna's natural aversion and in spite of my invariably gloomy and repellent aspect--she did at least feel pity for me, pity for a lost soul


    43. Was he so repellent?


    44. He felt certain that they objected to him personally, finding his Italian ethnicity and middle-class origins repellent


    45. If Melanie should have a child of Ashley’s, it would thought of Melanie having a child was repellent to Scarlett


    46. With all Avdotya Romanovna's natural aversion and in spite of my invariably gloomy and repellent aspect—she did at least feel pity for me, pity for a lost soul


    47. Entering at that moment, he was an incorporation of the strongest reasons through which Will's pride became a repellent force, keeping him asunder from Dorothea


    48. He tried that evening, by petting her, to heal the wound he had made in the morning, and it was not in Rosamond's nature to be repellent or sulky; indeed, she welcomed the signs that her husband loved her and was under control


    49. With the advent of the shark repellent, hostile contests for corporate control almost invariably end up in a proxy fight; that is, the use of the proxy machinery to get the requisite voting majorities to exercise control or elements of control


    50. The Emergence of the Shark Repellent





















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    Synonyms for "repellent"

    repellant repellent resistant disgustful disgusting distasteful foul loathly loathsome repelling revolting skanky wicked yucky rebarbative nauseating ugly nauseous objectionable nasty

    "repellent" definitions

    a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water


    a chemical substance that repels animals


    the power to repel


    serving or tending to repel


    highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust


    incapable of absorbing or mixing with