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How to use the word repulsive in a Sentence?

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The City of Blackfoot and its Police Department have a highly valued relationship with the Tribes and we find Sheriff Rowland's comments to be repulsive, his comments do not in any way reflect the City's nor the Blackfoot Police Department's attitudes towards our neighbors at Fort Hall. We truly value these relationships and look forward to the future projects and dealings with the Tribal Council and the Fort Hall Police Department. – Marc Carroll	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Instead of hypocritical displays of compassion and repulsive bragging, you should end your economic and medical terrorism so that medicine and medical supplies can reach medical staff and the Iranian people, we do not need American doctors. – Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If I see someone suffering or needing help, I'm already doing something before my brain even knows it, that's something I always have done and always will do. It's non-negotiable for me. Tayla Harris : How repulsive social media comments sparked outrage in Australia. – Tayla Harris	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I don't agree with these comments I find them repulsive. – Max Wise	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The disgusting comments by Gov. Bevin insinuating that a peaceful protest by teachers would lead to sexual assault are reprehensible, i don't agree with these comments I find them repulsive. – Max Wise	Found on CNN 6 years ago
As a legislator, a lawyer and a mother of two girls, I think the fact that rape insurance is even being discussed by this body is repulsive. – Gretchen Whitmer	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read is what led to a decline in literary genius in our times! – RAMANA PEMMARAJU	added by Ramana Pemmaraju 6 years ago
I hate the charge. I find it repulsive, i hate even the question because people that know me -- and you heard the Prime Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu, did you hear him, Bibi? – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 7 years ago
This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind The Trump campaign. overall, we do like Donald Trump nationalist views and Donald Trump words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens. It’s not an endorsement because, like anybody, there’s things you disagree with. – Thomas Robb	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He's not competing for Trump's 30%, he's competing for the 40% of the party that finds Trump repulsive and wants someone to punch him in the nose. – Fergus Cullen	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's sad. It's really sad, if we had known this was going on, we would have never let him join this fraternity. I never in my life thought I was sending a 17-year-old kid off to end up two months later gone. It's repulsive. He would have been better off joining the Marines and going to war. – Kim Burch	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that's how genocide begins, that's how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse. – Gael García Bernal	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame. – Charlotte Brontë	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive. – Friedrich Nietzsche	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims. – Dana Hatch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Do not speak of repulsive matters at table. – Amy Vanderbilt	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The City of Blackfoot and its Police Department have a highly valued relationship with the Tribes and we find Sheriff Rowland's comments to be repulsive, his comments do not in any way reflect the City's nor the Blackfoot Police Department's attitudes towards our neighbors at Fort Hall. We truly value these relationships and look forward to the future projects and dealings with the Tribal Council and the Fort Hall Police Department.

– Marc Carroll

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Instead of hypocritical displays of compassion and repulsive bragging, you should end your economic and medical terrorism so that medicine and medical supplies can reach medical staff and the Iranian people, we do not need American doctors.

– Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If I see someone suffering or needing help, I'm already doing something before my brain even knows it, that's something I always have done and always will do. It's non-negotiable for me. Tayla Harris : How repulsive social media comments sparked outrage in Australia.

– Tayla Harris

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't agree with these comments I find them repulsive.

– Max Wise

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The disgusting comments by Gov. Bevin insinuating that a peaceful protest by teachers would lead to sexual assault are reprehensible, i don't agree with these comments I find them repulsive.

– Max Wise

Found on CNN
6 years ago

As a legislator, a lawyer and a mother of two girls, I think the fact that rape insurance is even being discussed by this body is repulsive.

– Gretchen Whitmer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In our Impulsive nature to write and repulsive nature to read is what led to a decline in literary genius in our times!

– RAMANA PEMMARAJU

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
6 years ago

I hate the charge. I find it repulsive, i hate even the question because people that know me -- and you heard the Prime Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu, did you hear him, Bibi?

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
7 years ago

This publication is repulsive and their views do not represent the tens of millions of Americans who are uniting behind The Trump campaign. overall, we do like Donald Trump nationalist views and Donald Trump words about shutting down the border to illegal aliens. It’s not an endorsement because, like anybody, there’s things you disagree with.

– Thomas Robb

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He's not competing for Trump's 30%, he's competing for the 40% of the party that finds Trump repulsive and wants someone to punch him in the nose.

– Fergus Cullen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's sad. It's really sad, if we had known this was going on, we would have never let him join this fraternity. I never in my life thought I was sending a 17-year-old kid off to end up two months later gone. It's repulsive. He would have been better off joining the Marines and going to war.

– Kim Burch

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is what happens when somebody validates that conversation, that discourse, that's how genocide begins, that's how civil wars start, by validating that ignorant, repulsive, bigoted discourse.

– Gael García Bernal

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A Frenchman is self-assured because he regards himself personally both in mind and body as irresistibly attractive to men and women. An Englishman is self-assured as being a citizen of the best-organized state in the world and therefore, as an Englishman, always knows what he should do and knows that all he does as an Englishman is undoubtedly correct. An Italian is self-assured because he is excitable and easily forgets himself and other people. A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. The German's self-assurance is worst of all, stronger and more repulsive than any other, because he imagines that he knows the truth -- science -- which he himself has invented but which is for him the absolute truth.

– Leo Tolstoy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master -- something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. If the result be attractive, the World will praise you, who little deserve praise; if it be repulsive, the same World will blame you, who almost as little deserve blame.

– Charlotte Brontë

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

– George Santayana

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I find women with well developed flesh very attractive. The scrawny little things doing commercials on my television set are slightly repulsive -- like famine victims.

– Dana Hatch

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.

– Amy Vanderbilt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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