recoil
Example Sentences
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Maekar recoils at the thought of a child of royal birth subsisting on salted beef.
From Salon
Today’s readers might recoil at the thought of a Scotsman making a pet out of a wild animal caught in southern Iraq.
The Hungarian photographer recoiled at the work of American photographers such as Ansel Adams, whose “cult of technical perfection,” according to Patricia Albers, risked “killing their subjects with irrelevant detail.”
I love both because they thrive in the gray area of appetite: nothing too hot, nothing too cold, nothing that makes me recoil from a bite.
From Salon
They also boost earnings per share and help propel stock prices, which is why many investors prize them and would recoil at the notion of government interference.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
