Sentence examples for essentially recoil from inspiring English sources

The polyps essentially recoil.

A character in one of Jeffers's poems, speaking in a voice indistinguishable from the author's, points out that "man only in the world, except a few kinds of insect, is essentially cruel"; Jeffers recoils at "the slavemaker ant, and the slick wasp / That paralyzes living meat for her brood".

The second technique is essentially the same, except it removes all possibility of the user anticipating the recoil.

The toggle, essentially a two-piece arm hinged in the middle but lying flat behind the breechblock, also recoiled for a short distance before it was forced to buckle upward at its hinge.

I recoil.

People recoil.

Pedestrians freeze; some recoil.

(They recoil in horror).

They all recoil.

People would literally recoil.

They might recoil.