Sentence examples for some recoil from inspiring English sources

Pedestrians freeze; some recoil.

Some recoil at the idea of neighbourhoods dominated by big-box retailers and strip-mall storefronts.

To measure velocity, by contrast, we need an apparatus that allows for some recoil, and hence moveable parts.

Cooper's tracker poll showed a swing to remain, but the team expected some recoil back to the status quo, as is common in referendums.

There were films that divided, in 2010, like Luca Guadagnino's "I Am Love," whose peach-like ripeness of sensation made some recoil, but which to others, a mite less embarrassable, showed with fine, Italianate panache how uncontrollable feelings can be held and sustained by an organizing eye.

Some recoiled at the prospect of living much longer lives, citing fear of boredom, or being useless, or lonely.

"There's always some recoiling after raids or policy announcements," Roberto Gonzales, a professor of education at Harvard and the author of "Lives in Limbo," told me.

Some recoiled, others jeered and Spencer Pratt even felt like he was dreaming. .

Some even recoil from the word "outsourcing" itself.

"Some relatives recoil when contacted," he said; the surprise calls can rekindle ugly family histories.

Some may recoil from the black comedy of reducing these disasters to a collection of paperweights.