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Example sentences for: recoil

How can you use “recoil” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Naturally, JQA came both to revere and to recoil from the magnitude of his father's accomplishments.
The Pareto Principle demands that we embrace such a law while the fundamental precepts of liberalism demand that we recoil from it.
Emphysema and irreversible airway limitation that is characteristic of chronic tobacco smoking are related to the destruction of elastin and the resulting loss of lung elastic recoil.
To measure faster motion, the demon must measure positions at two time moments or some other feature, such as the recoil of the box’s walls from the momentum transferred by the hotter versus cooler gas particles in the left and right boxes as they bounce o the wall.
It's hard to think of another American film with this range of moods: satirical, sometimes hilarious, yet suffused with a sense of loss and riddled with the kind of violence that makes you recoil and lean forward simultaneously.