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Example sentences for: recoiled

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But each time, as soon as I realized I was going to a sponsor's page, I recoiled as if a spider had landed in my hair.
Some recoiled from the sheer brutality of the violence (which also defaced Germany's image).
Of course, the evil tobacco bastards recoiled from Kessler's rules.
I also wondered: What about those women, some of them pretty, bright, and articulate, who admirably recoiled from this clown when they discovered they were fodder for his Hollywood ambitions?
Wall Street initially recoiled at the idea of a settlement but then bid Big Tobacco's stocks up at nearly every mention of an impending deal.