Repulse in a sentence

It's a delicate process to never declare war on Russia, while maximizing Ukraine's ability to repulse the invaders.

He could worry his sexual fantasies might repulse you, TBR, and not because they’re repulsive — although they might be (some are!) — but because he may have shared his sexual fantasies with a previous partner who reacted badly.

The assaults on free speech that Woodward sought to repulse largely emanated from one end of the political spectrum or the other.

HMS Repulse of the British fleet enters Sydney Harbour in 1924.

In basketball, the Cebu Province squandered a 15-point lead in the second period but regained their composure just in time to repulse the pesky Iloilo City, 100-86.

After a temporary repulse by the Governor of Phitsanulok, Damrong Rajanubhab, pp. 414–415 he concentrated on the defeat of the weakest one first.

After the Confederate repulse at Bristoe Station and an aborted advance on Centreville, Stuart's cavalry shielded the withdrawal of Lee's army from the vicinity of Manassas Junction.

Although the results varied in different parts of the line, the overall repulse of the Union advance resulted in the most lopsided casualties since the assault on Marye's Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862.

As the crowd surges towards the gates of the palace, the imperial guards brutally repulse them, causing a blind old man to be knocked to the ground.

By mid-June 1945, the cabinet had agreed to approach the Soviet Union to act as a mediator for a negotiated surrender, but not before Japan's bargaining position had been improved by repulse of the anticipated Allied invasion of mainland Japan.

General Mannerheim resigned his post on 25 May after disagreements with the Senate about German hegemony over Finland, and about his planned attacks on Petrograd to repulse the Bolsheviks, and to Russian Karelia.

HMS Repulse operating in the Firth of Clyde in 1979.

Initially, their arrival seems to have been at the invitation of the Britons as mercenaries to repulse incursions by the Hiberni and Picts.

May 19: Harris Farm main Grant reacted to this final repulse by deciding to abandon this general area as a battlefield.

Nevertheless, Tallard was alarmed by the repulse of the elite Gens d'Armes and urgently rode across the field to ask Marsin for reinforcements; but on the basis of being hard pressed by Eugene – whose second attack was in full flood – Marsin refused.

Rowse, p.170 Fauconberg's repulse Edward was unable to rest after the battle.

Shores, Cull & Izawa, pp. 116–21, 123 The loss of Repulse and Prince of Wales conclusively proved the vulnerability of capital ships to aircraft without air cover of their own.

The last group of torpedo bombers attacked from multiple directions and Repulse was struck by five torpedoes.

The repulse of the Guard devastates French morale, and the arrival of the Prussians makes matters certain.

There was now a pause in the battle: Marlborough wanted to concert the attack upon the whole front, and Eugene, after his second repulse, needed time to reorganize.