Example sentences for: recoil

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

  • 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.

  • would be of little use, especially after the recoil that followed firing.

  • 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.

  • 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 ...


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