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Example sentences for: recoil

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The Pareto Principle demands that we embrace such a law while the fundamental precepts of liberalism demand that we recoil from it.
Time 's coverage seems most pro-Clinton: "[T]here is reason to recoil at some of Starr's tactics; he included far more sexual detail than was necessary to prove his point, and at times ignored or discounted evidence that contradicts his case."
Naturally, JQA came both to revere and to recoil from the magnitude of his father's accomplishments.
Many parents would recoil in horror at being considered fashion victims with regard to names, but when your children ( Marcus and Titus ) are in school with Tacitus and Rufus and Dædalus you can be consoled by the fact that in the school down the road, the children of Danii and Du'aine ( Gluteus and Mucus ) are being mercilessly ragged by Tahini and Pooh, themselves the children of Elvis and Moonbeam.
Tony Soprano is an upwardly mobile gangster, so one assumes he'd recoil in horror, but I'm sure the writers of The Sopranos could do something interesting with this.