Sentence Examples

  • The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.
  • He showed no repugnance to a change of masters, and began to make overtures to the Medici.
  • Milan and Piedmont were comparatively well governed; but repugnance to Austrian rule in the former case, and the contagion of French Jacobinical opinions in the latter, brought those populations into increasing hostility to the rulers.
  • Pierre turned away with repugnance, and closing his eyes quickly fell back on the carriage seat.
  • His repugnance to public life had been strongly expressed to his father in a letter of a very early date, in which he begged that the money which a seat in the House of Commons would cost might be expended in a mode more agreeable to him.
 
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