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How to use recoiling in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word recoiling? Here are some examples.

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She pulled away, recoiling suddenly as if she'd been stabbed with a cattle prod.
Their censorship of foreign art films shows the party recoiling from foreign ideas that many of its members neither understand nor like.
I like fancy custom grips on six-guns, however with the heavy recoiling single shot pistol, function is much more important than form.
I let out a strangled gasp, recoiling from the corpse on the pyre as if its cold skin had burned my fingers.
I have a face that only a mother could love, and even then she'd need a couple of strong wines to keep from recoiling in horror.
That pollution is still causing major concern and, as two swimmers recoiling from their usual off-pier plunge reported, the sewage is openly visible at low water.
Katniss walks through mountains of skeletons, at one point recoiling in horror as she inadvertently steps on a skull.
The protection shield, 70 mm dia, made of plastic, serves 95015 as protection for the eyes against recoiling, sharp articles.
My only problem with his entire process of execution is his violent follow-through, which concludes with a wicked bend of the elbow recoiling behind his ear.
It describes it as local tribes recoiling against al-Qaeda-type militants in their midst.
Labor savings from reducing or eliminating the need for recoiling or inspection lines.
Quality inspectors can verify the quality of the entire coil just by reviewing the recorded coil image without costly recoiling operation.
This wash coat, which protects the top side during recoiling, is compatible with the top coat but is thinner.
Outside, someone is mowing the lawn, and the expectation that the noise will waken the corpse is so strong that he can't help recoiling.
Their big sticking issue is with agricultural issues, but it's not a recoiling from the concept of having free trade agreements.
After recoiling in horror when she realised it wasn't her boyfriend, she told the man to get out of her room and reported the matter to the police.
Waiting or recoiling are futile attitudes that delay the fulfillment of the promises.
I'm sure young people are recoiling in horror from the thought!
What happens next still has me shuddering and recoiling with horror.
And, in the face of this debacle, young people are recoiling.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I said, letting go my grip on his shoulders, and recoiling a pace from him.
He smoked with lips protruding, spitting every moment, recoiling at every puff.
Each pistol was fired in a recoiling rest one round, in which the primer had been thinned so as to be pierced by the firing pin.
He smoked with his lips protruded, spitting every moment, recoiling at every puff.
He turned and cannoned into a man on the sidewalk, recoiling with an oath.
I asked, recoiling from the brute, as Wemmick spat upon his eyebrow and gave it a rub with his sleeve.
However, when Jane stumbles across an unsent but very incriminating text message she and Ian are left recoiling in shock.
He let go of her then, and recoiling against the divan, sat down.
Recoiling from this, he was at once resumed by Mrs. skelmersdale.
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