Object

• invader: Do we repel invaders by running along the defenses?

• boarder: This 9.2 inch rifle guarding the island " aircraft carrier " is intended to " repel boarders.

• mosquito: Does taking high doses of vitamin B12 or garlic repel mosquitoes?

• invasion: Each tower was fortified to repel invasion from France.

• flea: Another example of this is how to repel fleas.

Modifying Another Word

• even: The dialog is slick, the plot is involved but both exclude, even repel the viewer.

• also: They also repel the worst that the British climate can throw at us.

Subject

• thought: We are fascinated, yet repelled by the thought of such overwhelming rage.. .

Used with why or when

• what: It is in being unable to repel what seems omnipresent but repels us, the cliché , modern America... .

Present participle complement

• invade: As the story goes, all 10 sons were sent off to war to repel invading barbarians.

Modifying Another Word

• finally: By the 8th century they had reached Poitiers in the Loire valley, but it was at this point that they were finally repelled.

• then: With the help of a Bren gunner and two riflemen he then repelled an enemy counter-attack on the captured bunker with heavy losses.

• not: They are not repelled by any of the moral carrion in the world.

Preposition: by

• force: He wrote that all matter was either attracted or repelled by magnetic forces.

• idea: Tho repelled by the idea at first, Rosalind soon becomes intrigued by her subject and begins to believe she may be innocent.