How to Use revulsion in a Sentence

revulsion

noun
  • She was struck with revulsion at the sight of the dead animal.
  • Just as long as the movie shocked you or evoked a feeling of revulsion.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Every walk down the street filled him with revulsion.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Nausea stirred in the pit of her stomach, and her throat ached with revulsion.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Bo doesn't know what to believe, but soon enough, his revulsion turns to thoughts of commerce.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Many of his films have been met with revulsion or at least aggrieved ambivalence.
    — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
  • There’s trepidation—and even a bit of revulsion—to meat grown in a lab.
    — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • For months, critics of this spectacle have made a great show of their revulsion.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2017
  • The film is built around the idea of revulsion and extreme consumption.
    — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Initial revulsion at heart transplants gave way in the face of success.
    — Jane Maienschein, Slate Magazine, 16 Aug. 2017
  • What critics tend to miss, though, is that they're inspired by envy as well as revulsion.
    — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Simply put, we are taught to think of parasites with revulsion.
    — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Lydia cannot speak or care for herself and her illness inspires revulsion in him.
    — Michelle Dean, New Republic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • In some parts of the world, China’s appetite for donkey meat and hides is viewed with revulsion.
    — Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 7 Apr. 2018
  • His cousin Osita, once as close as a brother, reacts at first with revulsion that will prove telling.
    — Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The tone of the film is coloured by the revulsion of a filmmaker recoiling from his subject.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Praise poured in from across the country for the men who tried to help the young girls, as well as revulsion at Christian's words.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 27 May 2017
  • The first is the scale of popular revulsion at the return to naked military rule.
    — The Economist, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Across the world, other leaders expressed revulsion and scorn toward the bomber.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
  • The origin story of his revulsion involves a late-night infomercial for a stick blender.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Though the widespread revulsion about an all-white club in Detroit was not shared by everyone.
    — Ken Coleman, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2011
  • Dolly may have been cloned in Scotland, but the idea of human cloning is met with widespread revulsion here.
    — Misha Glenny, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2001
  • Her revulsion turned to self-disgust and a humiliation that was a kind of perverse cousin to arousal.
    — Susie Neilson, The Cut, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The photos and video from Bucha have set off a new wave of global condemnation and revulsion.
    — Amanda Seitz and Arijeta Lajka, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But in that moment, Audrey’s revulsion, to say nothing of her bad-Asian guilt, were very much my own.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Merkel met with a small group in the upper chambers and talked about the complex feelings of revulsion and shame the attack had prompted.
    — Arne Delfs, Bloomberg.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Over the last few weeks, the Europeans have gone from shock to bewilderment to revulsion.
    — David Brooks, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Given teenage revulsion if not denial at the thought of aging, this might be the scariest moment in the entire series.
    — Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
  • That's the same revulsion the vile display at CPAC deserves from all of us.
    — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022
  • They’re chosen to inspire fear and revulsion—mysterious creatures that lurk in the dark and are clearly up to no good.
    — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022

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