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How to use recoiled in a sentence

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The rifle recoiled as it fired, and the shell exploded about a foot short of the missile.
The quarks recoiled, and the small shockwave forced three neutrons out of the atom.
The young mistress, on her part, recoiled from the idea of having an old lover, and so she pulled out his white hairs.
The man glanced over at him, then recoiled with an oath, almost tipping over his tankard of beer.
The more demure ladies in the group recoiled in horror, but my fatso friends and I peered at this formidable dish in silent wonder.
Software makers, however, have recoiled at such an idea, knowing that customers will receive tremendous horsepower and need fewer processors.
The girl flinched and recoiled, but after a few seconds, she stared at the ground again.
But she had no sooner taken a few steps forward than she suddenly recoiled.
For some completely unknown reason I hadn't pulled away, or recoiled in disgust and horror.
Michael recoiled as if the laughter was directed at him and shot a disturbed look at the man behind him.
Only a few moments passed before the unicorn whinnied, and suddenly recoiled, as if jarred by an electric shock.
Instead I recoiled in horror, letting out a loud, involuntary gasp of disgust, and dropped them back where I'd found them.
The next morning, I reached down to stroke my sleek calves and recoiled in horror when my fingers encountered a disgusting prickliness.
Strands of the light whiplashed round the mindscape, and the blue flame recoiled.
I remembered picking up a rubber johnny as it drifted past me and holding it up to the other volunteers, who all recoiled in horror.
Some reviewers have recoiled in horror from the film, denouncing him as a misogynist, a fake, a show-off, an incompetent director, and worse.
Upon seeing such, I recoiled, remembering her delicate state of mind when it came to men.
Even hardened journalists and academics, long resigned to their toil among the ignorant, have recoiled before the feeble-mindedness of the man.
It recoiled, struggling to crawl away, and its features twisted into a brief expression of pain or rage.
Both came from mainstream ranching traditions and initially recoiled at the new philosophy.
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For Archie they had, one and all, a sensitive affection and respect which recoiled from a word of belittlement.
She almost touched him, but though his spirit recoiled, the doltish flesh would not be moved.
He had been innocent, and her suspicion of him recoiled back in self-contempt.
But I recoiled as I saw that I was standing on a barren common, covered with furze.
The buckshot from our smoothbore muskets flew too thickly for him, and he recoiled in astonishment.
The horse pistol was hunted for, as it had recoiled with such force I had lost hold of it.
Billy Chope, half-way across the floor, recoiled from the corpse, and glared at it pallidly from the doorway.
Then at the sight of his pale and harassed face she recoiled in evident and unsimulated surprise.
He held out his arms, but, to his unutterable surprise, the girl recoiled from him.
As for Mr. yahoo, she recoiled from him with horror at the very first glance.
My soul recoiled from amatory emotions, or indulged in them only as a remembrance.
As Vere saw it, showing redly through the darkness, she recoiled.
But this neglect has at length recoiled upon the heads of its promoters.
The coastguard ran aft, and when he came beside the wheel, bent over to examine it,and recoiled at once as though under some sudden emotion.
The cow recoiled a few steps and lowered her head truculently.
Before that hurricane of passion the ensign recoiled, despite himself.
D'Artagnan recoiled, as though the sesquipedalian syllables had knocked the breath out of his body.
Vaudemont recoiled before that gaze, and turned from the church.
The spectators recoiled, aghast with indignant astonishment.
Her fine taste recoiled from the indelicacy of the expression.
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