What is "repellent"

Usage examples of "repellent".

As often as the fancy had, compelled by the lady herself, crossed the horizon of his thoughts, a repellent influence from the same source had been at hand to sweep it afar into its antenatal chaos.

Marius had plenty of time to absorb these repellent antics as he stood there waiting for someone to answer his thunderous knock.

It had always seemed to Prince Andrew before that he was antipathetic to the Emperor and that the latter disliked his face and personality generally, and in the cold, repellent glance the Emperor gave him, he now found further confirmation of this surmise.

The advocates of the resurrection should not confine their attention to the repellent or the ludicrous aspects of metempsychosis, but do justice to its claim and its charm.

I noticed the shops selling lucky charms and meteor repellent in the last week or so.

Where to get free head nets and mosquito netting dipped in permethrin, a mosquito repellent harmless to people.

The lips came together like a kiss in a studied pout that Seaver knew should have been repellent but made him wish that Earl were dead.

There was a flat, lifeless quality about it that, without the verve of battlefield blood, spoke of tyranny most repellent and egregious, and yet at the same time petty and self-serving.

The classic repellent for budworms is a squirt of mineral oil, which smothers the worms, applied with a medicine dropper or syringe inserted into the tip of each ear of corn or other budding fruits.

His orange backpack held a tent and rain fly, food and water, extra clothes and rain gear, backpack stove and fuel, mess gear and first-aid kit, rope, flashlight, insect repellent, a Fiberfill sleeping bag and ground cloth, foam pad, and an assortment of other trail necessities.

The rest of the store had shelves and tables that sold canned goods and frypans and fishing gear and toilet paper and insect repellent and souvenir mugs shaped like Smokey the Bear.

Takeovers get sloppy when the sought-after club seeks shark repellent and allies with other gangs to fight off the suitor.

Although most insects - except the tobacco hornworm - avoid eating this plant, it is never mentioned as a repellent plant for the garden.

It can be used as a contact and stomach poison as well as a repellent against flies, roaches, aphids, fleas, thrips, leafhoppers, Whiteflies and some kinds of beetles.

Squirrels are known to line their nests with cedar needles, possibly because of their insect repellent qualities.