Example Sentences

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Like my Winnie, about 16% of dogs are “serious” poop eaters, repulsively caught in the act of eating feces more than five times, and deemed to have the fancier, scientific term of coprophagia.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2022

Derek is repulsively fascinating, with his power tools, “his too-tight dress shirts, his dual phones, his throbbing beeper,” and obviously a rat.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2021

Colman’s puke-plastered Queen Anne earns our affection by being stubbornly, frustratingly, repulsively herself.

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2019

The intentionally, repulsively unfunny comedian Neil Hamburger—the character played by Gregg Turkington—is front and center in Rick Alverson’s wildly imaginative, grimly sardonic anti-comedy “Entertainment.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 16, 2018

It was a repulsively girly thought, though, and I wasn’t sure what dark corner of my mind it had come crawling out of.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken