balk
Example Sentences
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The rich guy who balks at financing Marty’s signature line of orange ping-pong balls?
For the past few years, housing has been a waiting game, as buyers balk at record-high prices and sellers hold off on listing their homes until activity returns.
He didn’t balk at the extra few thousand dollars the two-week trip added to his tuition bill, which is coming out of his loans.
Neves Valente balked at getting into the gray sedan while John was behind him, John told police.
But the Secret Service took one look at downtown, which was filled with boarded-up buildings, and balked.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
