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Example sentences for: recoil

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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.
Bobby, a Navy vet who never saw action in World War II, fixed a deer in his sights, squeezed the trigger--and landed flat on his back from the recoil.
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.
I recoil at the prospect of Mr. Nixon as custodian of this nation's future, as guardian of the hydrogen bomb ...
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.