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    Use "repellant" in a sentence

    repellant example sentences

    repellant


    1. Later that afternoon, Manda sprayed herself with mosquito repellant, put on her broad sunhat and a pair of boots, and strapped her big red bag across her body


    2. ” John McWhorter calls the Dowd column “the most repellant 700 words I have ever read


    3. It’s a mosquito repellant


    4. repellant all over each inch of her exposed flesh, and


    5. Still, the same could be said of an equally repellant Earthly beast, the swine—and I had nothing against the typical pork roast


    6. Bringing the hand to his mouth he tasted the bitter mosquito repellant he had


    7. Coming up with a can of insect repellant she let out a long sigh and began applying the mist to her arms, hands and neck; rubbing her face with repellant moistened hands


    8. It’s found in ammonia, anesthetics, antihistamines, artificial limbs, artificial turf, antiseptics, aspirin, auto parts, awnings, balloons, ballpoint pens, bandages, beach umbrellas, boats, cameras, candles, car battery cases, carpets, caulking, combs, cortisones, cosmetics, crayons, credit cards, curtains, deodorants, detergents, dice, disposable diapers, dolls, dyes, eye glasses, electrical wiring insulation, faucet washers, fishing rods, fishing line, fishing lures, food preservatives, food packaging, garden hose, glue, hair coloring, hair curlers, hand lotion, hearing aids, heart valves, ink, insect repellant, insecticides, linoleum, lipstick, milk jugs, nail polish, oil filters, panty hose, perfume, petroleum jelly, rubber cement, rubbing alcohol, shampoo, shaving cream, shoes, toothpaste, trash bags, upholstery, vitamin capsules, water pipes and yarn


    9. High in anti-oxidants, garlic is also a natural mosquito repellant


    10. It was found breast cancer has a relationship to the water repellant lithium compound

    11. It was a great idea, not that I’d be trading in my mosquito repellant for squashed bugs anytime soon


    12. “Don’t tell me you’re carrying around some croc repellant in that bag of yours,” I snapped


    13. As we waited for the results, I couldn’t resist pulling out my insect repellant cream and nearly bathing in it


    14. However, between my insect repellant, bed net, and anti-malarial medication, I felt relatively safe


    15. The smell of smoke and fire is a universal repellant that keeps them all away from the area


    16. He not only disliked family life, but a family, and especially a husband was, in accordance with the views general in the bachelor world in which he lived, conceived as something alien, repellant, and, above all,


    17. And yet—somehow repellant to me at the same time…


    18. “He might be spending the evening agreeably with his charming family, yet he goes on sitting with this brute!—will go on doing so, too, until it is too late to go down to the drawing-room!” Here I glanced at him over the back of my chair, and thought the general look of his attitude and appearance so offensive and repellant that at the moment I could gladly have offered him some insult, even a most serious one


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    Synonyms for "repellant"

    repellant repellent disgustful disgusting distasteful foul loathly loathsome repelling revolting skanky wicked yucky rebarbative

    "repellant" 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