Example Sentences

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Amid the rebuke, brands have recoiled back within the antiseptic neutrality where they’re most comfortable: irrelevant celebrity cameos, cheap millennial nostalgia, unmoored wistfulness for simpler days.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2026

Treasury yields have recoiled almost 30 basis points from Wednesday's highs to sit at 4.66% - and are on course for their biggest weekly drop since March.

From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2023

How she would have recoiled to know that devotees of the faith called Thelema lived after World War II among the grand mansions of Pasadena’s Millionaire’s Row.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2022

“Responsible people in the field have recoiled in horror at this sort of unfounded genetic determinism seeping in the courtroom,” he writes.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2017

While endeavoring to tear up and rend asunder the Constitution, its strong fibres have recoiled, and caught them in the cleft.

From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel