was balking
- past progressive of balk.
Example Sentences
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Sudan’s military was balking at extraditing Mr. Bashir to the court, in part because of what a trial might reveal about the officer corps’s wider culpability in that horrific episode.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2021
Dr. Bright, too, was balking; if the drugs had to be accepted into the national stockpile, he wanted their distribution tightly controlled.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
However, the insurer was balking at the $5,000 anesthesiology tab.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2017
The Sacramento Bee, meanwhile, reported that the family was "balking over a city request that they chip in $3.26 million to help pay for predevelopment costs."
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2012
The company that had issued the bigger policy was balking at paying off.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
