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Example sentences for: recoil

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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.
If the inspiratory muscle activity ceases abruptly at the end of inspiration, completely passive expiration results in early peaking of the flow due to unopposed recoil of the lung and the chest wall.
The Pareto Principle demands that we embrace such a law while the fundamental precepts of liberalism demand that we recoil from it.
would be of little use, especially after the recoil that followed firing.