Sentence for recoil | Use recoil in a sentence

Sentences for recoil. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use recoil in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for recoil.

  • Does he recoil? (10)
  • And he did not recoil. (12)
  • If you cut him off from his work in life, it will but recoil on you. (8)
  • Nor of the recoil from the burning stack; those moments empty with terror. (8)
  • Gregory made a little movement of recoil, as though his delicacy had received a shock. (8)
  • I believe I may say I am not devoid of greatness of soul; for I did not recoil from this infamous burden. (2)
  • From that too stormy kiss of his she drew back for a second, then, as if afraid of her own recoil, snuggled close again. (8)
  • But we might try to get those two to see that anything the poor devils of laborers do is bound to recoil on themselves, fourfold. (8)
  • They set their swollen shoulders and bleeding hands against the wheels at each recoil and heaved the heavy gun back to its place. (1)
  • They are anti-climax, recoil, cross-current; morally, they are repentance, penance; imagerially, the frozen North on the young brown buds bursting to green. (10)

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Definition of recoil:

  • recoil, r-koil’, v.t. to start back: to rebound: to return: to shrink from. | n. a starting or springing back: rebound: an escapement in which after each beat the escape-wheel recoils slightly. | n. recoil’er, one who recoils. | adj. recoil’ing. | adv. recoil’ingly. | n. recoil’ment. (0)

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