Explore Revulsion through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like repugnance or repulsion. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Revulsion in a sentence
Revulsion meaning
- Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
- A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
- The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
Synonyms of Revulsion
Using Revulsion
- The main meaning on this page is: Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror. | A sudden violent feeling of disgust. | The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
- Useful related words include: repugnance, repulsion, horror, disgust.
- In the example corpus, revulsion often appears in combinations such as: of revulsion, and revulsion, revulsion at.
Context around Revulsion
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Revulsion
- In this selection, "revulsion" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, generating, induces, physical, disgust, anger and reaction stand out and add context to how "revulsion" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a physical revulsion in me and anger and revulsion in society. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "revulsion" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with revulsion
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Child sexual abuse especially raises anger and revulsion in society. (10 words)
It is godawful, it provokes a physical revulsion in me. (10 words)
I’ve considered the possibility that the anti-Trump fervor has been based largely on aesthetic revulsion. (17 words)
Though I understand the knee-jerk revulsion reaction to see an android mouth-birth a flying snake-baby with lamprey teeth that purrs like a 1990s dial-up modem, I kind of want this hell-monster to become the new king of Kepler-22b. (44 words)
The extent of public sentiment has found expression in the popular culture, in calypsos such as Jaunty’s ‘Bobol List’, which expressed in no uncertain terms the revulsion that the ordinary Saint Lucian felt at the abuse of public office for private gain. (43 words)
And it now extends to revulsion toward the deplorable conditions at detention camps as the resources of the federal government have been overwhelmed by a surge of migrants and often dubious asylum claims by economic migrants in the last several months. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
The nimiety of the space is overwhelming, generating revulsion from the obscene wealth and mirroring the family’s own dysfunction as they desperately jockey for power.
The strategy of Hamas is to engender the deaths of as many as possible whom it can pass off as Palestinian innocents, in order to produce media coverage which induces revulsion and condemnation of Israel in the west.
This is the guy who keeps telling us that he was driven to run for president by his revulsion for what he falsely claimed was Donald Trump’s support of antisemitism in Charlottesville.
We should be shocked by their lack of revulsion, but Hunter lets us hang out with these kids for a good 15 minutes before taking us to Jamie.
Child sexual abuse especially raises anger and revulsion in society.
He fears that revulsion at Israel’s slaughter could trigger revolt in the Middle East that threatens US interests.
He’s retiring from the Senate, in large measure because of his revulsion at the direction the party has taken since Trump won its presidential nod in 2016.
I now felt such revulsion for Dad that I couldn't bear to be in the same room as him.
It is godawful, it provokes a physical revulsion in me.
After watching President Trump for the past few years, columnist David Brooks recently opined that he fully expected “the country would rise up in moral revulsion” at his gruff style.
A key trigger is people’s reactions to what they perceive as injustice or unfairness, which can be described in terms such as outrage, revulsion, disgust, distress, or, more mildly, concern.
As I watched the Prime Minister order mass house arrest on Monday night, I felt revulsion, anger and grief – as anyone brought up when this was a free and well-governed country would.
I’ve considered the possibility that the anti-Trump fervor has been based largely on aesthetic revulsion.
That shit really angers and confuses me, especially because the idea of being naked in front of someone makes me feel a mix of horror and revulsion.
The extent of public sentiment has found expression in the popular culture, in calypsos such as Jaunty’s ‘Bobol List’, which expressed in no uncertain terms the revulsion that the ordinary Saint Lucian felt at the abuse of public office for private gain.
Though I understand the knee-jerk revulsion reaction to see an android mouth-birth a flying snake-baby with lamprey teeth that purrs like a 1990s dial-up modem, I kind of want this hell-monster to become the new king of Kepler-22b.
And it now extends to revulsion toward the deplorable conditions at detention camps as the resources of the federal government have been overwhelmed by a surge of migrants and often dubious asylum claims by economic migrants in the last several months.
Deep Fakes have come to pornography, sparking outrage and revulsion among parents and womens' groups and applause from men's groups.
Society will have no expectations of the to-be 50- or 60-year-old released prisoners; it will view them with distrust and revulsion,” read Omar’s letter to the judge, as obtained by FOX 9 of Minneapolis-St.
A minority of self-appointed keepers of the Christmas spirit take that revulsion as a personal insult, as if declining an eggnog is Grinch-like subversion.
Common combinations with revulsion
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of revulsion 7×
- and revulsion 7×
- revulsion at 7×
- revulsion from 3×
- revulsion that 3×
- his revulsion 2×
- revulsion for 2×
- revulsion in 2×
- that revulsion 2×
- such revulsion 2×