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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).
They recoiled at the specifics of Butler's plan, with Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz reportedly saying U.N. inspectors were up to their "old games and tricks."
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?
Of course, the evil tobacco bastards recoiled from Kessler's rules.