Example Sentences

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Markets pricing for the ECB and Bank of England policy rates, meantime, has recoiled sharply in recent weeks.

From Reuters • Aug. 25, 2023

Unsurprisingly, the stock market has recoiled at the prospect.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023

But his other firms specializing in private spaceflight and underground supertrains — SpaceX and The Boring Company — remain private, and Musk has recoiled at the idea of exposing them to shareholder control.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2018

But Sarkozy has also tapped into a craving for law and order within the French mainstream, which has recoiled at the rioters' defiance of the authorities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once more you have assailed M. Kossuth; once more you have shot your envenomed shaft; and once more, glancing back from the pure shield of that gentleman’s honour, your poisoned arrow has recoiled upon yourself.

From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Reid, Elizabeth