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How to use recoils in a sentence

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There's a libertarian edge to Conservatism that recoils from the image of a Politburo having central control.
She recoils at the idea that she's simply lending her name to these products.
It is vain to urge that truth will prevail, and that slander, when detected, recoils on the calumniator.
The pessimist recoils from this picture, and in his recoil there is, typically, an element of emotional shock.
But the American military still recoils from getting involved in such conflicts and derides the worth of constabulary duties and nation building.
Behind Mary stands Anna, a woman living in the temple, giving thanks to the lord and behind Joseph a man recoils before the prophecies he hears.
Suppose that a person's body recoils when he hears brown cow but not when he hears either brown or cow alone.
What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance.
Albany recoils from the savage ethos in which his wife lives, foreseeing both her own destruction and that of the universe itself as a consequence of unbridled self-interest.
When you breathe out, both diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax, and the lung recoils decreasing the size of your chest cavity.
The front trigger is articulated to move forward a little when the gun recoils and then you move your finger forward for the right modified barrel.
Jeffrey quickly hides inside a closet, from which he observes Dorothy disrobe and then reach for a blue velvet robe inside the closet as he recoils in fear of discovery.
As the world recoils from the unfolding mayhem, Angolans are left to the mercy of their leaders.
With this saw it's a clean cut every time, with no recoils to pull or prime, just pull the trigger and start cutting.
Right at the moment the ball changes direction, the POWER ARM recoils dynamically and leads to extreme acceleration on the ball.
Upon firing, the pressure developed by the combustion gases recoils the slide-barrel assembly.
Turret gun moves up and down with a range of approximately 20° and recoils after firing.
In the drawing, the career woman recoils but remains fascinated.
Part of me recoils at this and wishes to contradict him.
China recoils at any hint of a plebiscite in Taiwan, fearing one might one day be used to justify a formal declaration of independence or to block reunification.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I do not go too far, when I call it the crime against nature, from which the soul recoils, and which language refuses to describe.
There were shocks and recoils in every part of every thinking soul, in every part of the object-world!
My mind recoils from contemplation of what they may crystallize into.
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