Recoiling is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Recoiling meaning
The act of something that recoils.
Using Recoiling
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of something that recoils.
- In the example corpus, recoiling often appears in combinations such as: recoiling from, recoiling at, of recoiling.
Context around Recoiling
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 3 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Recoiling
- In this selection, "recoiling" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, myself, elephants, suddenly, worried, reaction and nuclide stand out and add context to how "recoiling" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and suddenly recoiling with redoubled and and the recoiling nuclide. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "recoiling" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with recoiling
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I don’t blame young people from recoiling at Trump. (10 words)
Guard hairs give warnings that may trigger a recoiling reaction. (10 words)
I find myself recoiling, worried that I might be reacting too quickly. (12 words)
As for the more conventional Large family: it’s enough for some parents, perhaps understandably, that the story, published in 1989, features words such as fat and diet, with the elephants recoiling, in flagrant defiance of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! (42 words)
With poor sales, and many publishers recoiling from his subject matter, Howard ultimately judged poetry writing a luxury he could not afford, and after 1930 he wrote little verse, instead dedicating his time to short stories and higher-paying markets. (40 words)
Perhaps, the Nigerian Elders Forum can truly drive the search for a new Nigeria if its members avoid the trappings of recoiling to narrow and anachronistic perceptions that nationhood is all about cake sharing rather than baking the cake. (39 words)
As for the more conventional Large family: it’s enough for some parents, perhaps understandably, that the story, published in 1989, features words such as fat and diet, with the elephants recoiling, in flagrant defiance of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! (42 words)
Example sentences (16)
I don’t blame young people from recoiling at Trump.
So don’t let the news establishment blame you for recoiling from the worst.
Instead of recoiling at the idea of living alone as I head into the next decade, I love it.
Manu’s recoiling out of a seemingly innocuous fend on Adam Doueihi was the only blight on the Roosters evening, while the Tigers had nothing but a 79th-minute consolation try to show for their efforts.
I find myself recoiling, worried that I might be reacting too quickly.
Sitting through this twisting, turning documenting about the trial of Michael Peterson – charged with the murder in 2003 of his wife – the viewer may find themselves alternately empathising with and recoiling from the accused.
Twitter needed both advertisers and new users, but some of the online world was recoiling at the free-for-all the platform had become.
As for the more conventional Large family: it’s enough for some parents, perhaps understandably, that the story, published in 1989, features words such as fat and diet, with the elephants recoiling, in flagrant defiance of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move!
Perhaps, the Nigerian Elders Forum can truly drive the search for a new Nigeria if its members avoid the trappings of recoiling to narrow and anachronistic perceptions that nationhood is all about cake sharing rather than baking the cake.
At the point where its shock has been the most violent the sea is driven back, and suddenly recoiling with redoubled force, causes the inundation.
Guard hairs give warnings that may trigger a recoiling reaction.
The total energy of the decay process is divided between the electron, the antineutrino, and the recoiling nuclide.
Thus in a fraction of the nuclear events (the recoil-free fraction, given by the Lamb–Mössbauer factor ), the entire crystal acts as the recoiling body, and these events are essentially recoil-free.
With further stretching, the jumper has an increasing upward acceleration and at some point has zero vertical velocity before recoiling upward.
With poor sales, and many publishers recoiling from his subject matter, Howard ultimately judged poetry writing a luxury he could not afford, and after 1930 he wrote little verse, instead dedicating his time to short stories and higher-paying markets.
Wright's men made little progress south of the Mechanicsville Road, which connected New and Old Cold Harbor, recoiling from heavy fire.
Common combinations with recoiling
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- recoiling from 4×
- recoiling at 3×
- of recoiling 2×
- the recoiling 2×