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Discover LudwigThe phrase "she recoiled" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe an involuntary movement of jerking back or shrinking away from something. Example: She recoiled in shock when she saw the snake in her garden.
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She recoiled.
"Oh, no," she recoiled.
She recoiled from it.
She recoiled when he reached for her.
When she saw them, she recoiled.
She recoiled as if it had bitten her.
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That would suit you, Madame, wouldn't it?" She recoils, in shock, at the public affront.
Except … she recoils, freaked out: "Did you forget who I am?" We realise as he remembers: she's his sister.
She recoils at the "smelly natives," calls most things "beastly" and prefers to laze in a drawing room perfumed by "chintz and dying flowers".
She recoils at the specter of going back on welfare, as she was a few years ago: "I'd rather die," she said.
In the first version she casts a mysterious, sidelong glance; in the second, painted when Ingres was in his 80s, she recoils in horror.
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