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Recoiled meaning
past participle of recoil
Example sentences (20)
Jey recoiled and shot him a look of disappointment.
Others though recoiled at the price of the bottle.
Who can forget that time in December 2008 when Conservatives in the House of Commons recoiled in horror at the thought of a Liberal-NDP coalition government surviving thanks to a written pledge of support from the Bloc Québécois?
Even when Ojo recoiled from Mohbad's case due to the controversy surrounding it, he maintained that she was aware of some truth.
If you pushed back on that, he recoiled or retreated, and you were left to fear the worst while hoping for the best.
I motioned to the first guy to be careful - this new bloke could be an executioner - and recoiled from him, resisting being moved towards the scooter rider.
The same liberal commentators who recoiled in horror at Trump's threat to 'lock up' his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton are cheering on the numerous – and frequently spurious – court cases being brought against him.
When I showed them to YOU’s editor, she recoiled.
Some of the policies were popular in isolation, but the public recoiled from the whole package for many reasons – some bound up with trepidation about the cost, others that cut straight to the left’s failure to understand that 1945 was a long time ago.
Some people when they spotted me, they recoiled,” the 79-year-old told The Associated Press.
The lockdown was tolerable in small doses but now, itching to grow, to expand, to be with friends, she has recoiled into a shell.
As North notes, even as they recoiled at the bad optics of Alabama’s total ban, many anti-abortion activists felt constrained to give the legislators who passed it an attaboy for having the right intentions.
He “recoiled”, Reiterman added, “when outsiders took the attitude that they or their children would never be crazy or vulnerable enough to join such an organization.
She recoiled and disappeared less often — even standing there, arms dangling, when Bergen insisted on celebrating the end of a stage by wrapping each of her teammates in a big, sweaty, 15-second hug.
Among those who recoiled at the images that Switlyk posted was Judy Murray, the mother of Scottish tennis star Andy Murray.
But the magazine’s supposed source contends in unnatural language, “When the diva dipped a toe, she recoiled, snapping, ‘That’s not the right temperature!
I had made a terrible mistake and he'd recoiled'.
The entire world has recoiled in horror from our Racist-in-Chief, so now he can only travel to countries where they shoot protesters.
He had recoiled from the music of Götterdämmerung when he heard it at Covent Garden in 1892, but encouraged by his friend and fellow-student Fritz Hart he persevered and quickly became an ardent Wagnerite.
Romanticism revered the traditionalism of rural life and recoiled against the upheavals caused by industrialization, urbanization and the wretchedness of the working classes.