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- verb Present participle of
recoil .
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Examples
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I believe those people are recoiling from the entire prospect of Doctor Who at this point, given what just happened on Torchwood.
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And then suddenly she was recoiling from the bed as if it had burst into flame, pinning the nightshirt to her chest and — it was her turn now — jamming a fist into her mouth to keep from screaming.
The Silence 2010
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And then suddenly she was recoiling from the bed as if it had burst into flame, pinning the nightshirt to her chest and — it was her turn now — jamming a fist into her mouth to keep from screaming.
The Silence 2010
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And then suddenly she was recoiling from the bed as if it had burst into flame, pinning the nightshirt to her chest and — it was her turn now — jamming a fist into her mouth to keep from screaming.
The Silence 2010
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Yet, while recoiling from the very word "torture," the
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Not that His ascension itself would stumble them more than His death, but that after recoiling from the mention of the one, they would not be in
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The banking giant was one of the relatively few winning stocks Tuesday, when markets around the world were recoiling from the Greek debt crisis.
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I sincerely hope that you, dear readers, are laughing, because I – still recoiling from the shock of having had shit on my face and preoccupied with the task of disinfecting my head – have not yet been able to muster a laugh.
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(Already I can imagine them recoiling from the screen, crying What have I done?
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"HELL!" she iterated in accents that conveyed the idea of recoiling from an abyss.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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