repel
verb (used with object)
to drive or force back (an assailant, invader, etc.).
will repel
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future tenseof repel.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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A crucial question is whether long outages — on the heels of last summer’s slowdown, to raise sunken Sodo tracks — will repel passengers, or will they return?
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
“People of Israel, we will repel these threats and we will defeat our enemies. We’ve done so in the past and we’ll do so again.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023
“We will stop it, we will repel it,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2018
Similarly, two silk cloths so rubbed will repel, since both cloths have negative charge.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
When, however, the two rings are moving in opposite directions, and meeting each other in the same straight line, they will repel one another, instead of attracting each other.
From Aether and Gravitation by William George Hooper
