Sentences with 'repulsed'

Example sentences and phrases with the word repulsed and other words derived from it.

• « The Arabs conquered Syria and seized Byzantine territory in Anatolia just as quickly: Egypt was conquered in 642, with an attempted Byzantine counter-attack repulsed in 645. »

• « The assumption was that Germany would be held back by heavy fortifications and could be repulsed, and the French army simply had no plans, or intentions, to attack Germany in the meantime. »