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• The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud.From the entry boom
• When I touched the snake it recoiled sharply.From the entry sharply
• As the chest wall and lungs hyperinflate, they progressively resist further inflation by virtue of their elastic recoil characteristics.From the entry hyperinflate
• The carriage consists of recoil and counterrecoil mechanism.From the entry counterrecoil
• Somehow I doubt that Kelly will want to go surfing with us — she's such a vampire that she might recoil from the sun, lol!From the entry vampire
• Morgan recoiled, ready to fend off another attack, but the rope grappled him back against the fence.2015, Chris Allen, Avenger: The Alex Morgan Interpol Spy Thriller Series (Intrepid 3), Pan. From the entry grapple
• Combs took a sip of his coffee and recoiled, forgetting how hot it was.2015, Anthony Tyler, A Cold Dead Place, →ISBN. From the entry a magician never reveals his secrets
• Eragon recoiled as a short, thick beak appeared from within the depths of its hood.2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 46. From the entry chitinous
• At that point, I couldn't help wondering how many ignorant, homophobic and outing-phobic viewers recoiled in horror.1991 December 1, Rudy Grillo, “Who's The Top?”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 20, page 8. From the entry pussyfooted
• This reactive recoiling from something clearly in our nature is itself unnatural.1973, Hugh Downs, chapter 11, in Potential: The Way to Emotional Maturity, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 188. From the entry arrestive
• The Cabinet, when faced with this proffered omnipotence, had recoiled in fear.1932, Harold Nicolson, “Public Faces”, in The Spectator, volume 149, page 558. From the entry the bomb
• We report the first measurements of the detection of the directional nuclear recoils in a fully fiducialised low-pressure time projection chamber.2016, J. B. R. Battat, E. Daw, A. C. Ezeribe, J.-L. Gauvreau, J. L. Harton, R. Lafler, E. R. Lee, D. Loomba, A. Lumnah, E. H. Miller, F.…. From the entry fiducialised
• The cascabel was primarily used to attach ropes that secured the cannon during the recoil blowback that came from firing.2011, Chris Messner, Cuba Open from the Inside: Travels in the Forbidden Land. From the entry cascabel
• But I think that was the very reason he recoiled: your insistence, your crowding, your wanting, your cajoling, chummy Daddishness.2010, Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin, page 280. From the entry daddishness
• Liberals rightly recoil from the constant pressure on Muslims to explain themselves and denounce jihadism or even islamism.2009 February 4, Jonathan Freedland, “As British Jews come under attack, the liberal left must not remain silent”, in The Guardian. From the entry jihadism
• They both pull away at exactly the same moment, laughing, recoiling at the sheer absurdity of what just happened.2008, Helen Walsh, “Part Three: Thelwall, Washington, 1989”, in Once Upon a Time in England, Edinburgh: Canongate Books, →ISBN, chapter 6…. From the entry 'kin' 'ell
• But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does.2005, David Deida, Blue Truth. From the entry unlove
• "Yeuuch," the French-American artist says, recoiling in horror.1993 October 7, Roger Cohen, quoting Niki de Saint Phalle, “At Home With: Niki de Saint Phalle; An Artist, Her Monsters, Her Two Worlds”…. From the entry yeuch
• Gasping, she recoiled for long enough to allow him entry.1979, Georgianna Bell, Passionate Jade, page 326. From the entry maidenhair
• Woodhead-Monroe shock absorbers are fitted between the equalising beams and the bogie frame to damp the recoil of the primary suspension.1962 December, “The B.R. standard diesel-electric Type 1 locomotive”, in Modern Railways, page 382. From the entry equalising beam
• A late dictionary defines a shrinker in a general sense as one who recoils, or draws back fearfully from something dreaded.1923, The Pharmaceutical era. From the entry shrinker
• Furthermore, as we have seen during the course of the present book, thoroughgoing anthropomonism or hominism reflexively recoils upon itself and demythologizes itself.2010, Don Cupitt, Theology's Strange Return, page 110. From the entry hominism
• They remain oversensitive, continually recoiling from the world, or undersensitive, banging into things, duck-walking through the day as if not entirely aware of their surroundings.2007 June 5, Benedict Carey, “The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive”, in New York Times. From the entry undersensitive
• The voice, as pure, lyric, unselfconscious I-hood spilling or erupting into the world, suddenly becomes part of that world and recoils upon its originator.2000, S. Connor, Dumbstruck. From the entry I-hood
• When he is accused of being “still a hick, like your old man,” he recoils violently from the thought of reliving his father’s insignificant life.1977, Alain Silver, The Samurai Film, South Brunswick, A. S. Barnes, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry swordbreaker
• Most Britons and most elected officials have recoiled at the anti-immigrant violence, indicating that for now, it has hurt the nativist cause more than helped it.2024 August 8, Amanda Taub, “Trying to Capitalize on Anti-Migrant Riots Could Backfire on U.K.’s Far Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry nativist
• A small, lightweight round, such as a .22 LR, generates very manageable recoil and muzzle flip (how much the nose of the gun flips up when you fire it).2015, Tara Dixon Engel, The Handgun Guide for Women, page 33. From the entry flip
• Four women dance together, shuffling their feet, arching over one another's bodies and running across the stage before stopping dead with shuddery little recoils of the chest.2007 December 8, Roslyn Sulcas, “Strings, Hip-Hop and Not a Little Randiness”, in New York Times. From the entry shuddery
• As he demonstrated the use of the bataca, the subject recoiled and revealed to him that she had been hit and physically abused by her ex-husband.1995, Jurg Siegfried, Therapeutic and Everyday Discourse as Behavior Change: Towards a Micro-analysis in Psychotherapy Process Research…. From the entry bataca
• The glorification of recreational drug use, from which the wealthy and middle class have only recently begun to recoil, has contributed to the emergence of a permanent urban underclass.1994, Richard Nixon, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 235. From the entry counterculture
• One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired.1983, Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902, page 462. From the entry occupy

Meaning of recoil

1. noun A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.
2. noun The state or condition of having recoiled.
3. noun The energy transmitted back to the shooter from a firearm which has fired. Recoil is a function of the weight of the weapon, the weight of the projectile, and the speed at which it leaves the muzzle.

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Questions about recoil in a sentence

How do you use recoil in a sentence?

Recoil is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He recoiled in disgust when he saw the mess.”

What is a short sentence with recoil?

“But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does.”

What does recoil mean?

Recoil means a starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking.