Example Sentences

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“A course with a reputation for a tough grading distribution will repel students,” Pinker said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

“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

An effort by Twitch to persuade streamers to run more advertisements on their channels has dismayed creators who say more ads will repel their viewers.

From New York Times • Oct. 22, 2022

The false front will repel shots that don’t carry quite enough.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2022

And just in like manner as such a community will draw to it men who are like-minded, so it will repel from it all the formalist people.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts by Maclaren, Alexander