recoil
Example Sentences
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The word enters my ear like a snake, searing itself into my brain, and I recoil, like his statement of ridiculousness pushed me.
From Literature
Most creatures recoiled at the sight of an animal dressed in human clothes.
From Literature
While mingling at an event he was covering last summer, one executive “recoiled when I told her I was using AI for news. And she said, ‘I don’t like that.
Maekar recoils at the thought of a child of royal birth subsisting on salted beef.
From Salon
Today’s readers might recoil at the thought of a Scotsman making a pet out of a wild animal caught in southern Iraq.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
