| I do not go too far, when I call it the crime against nature, from which the soul recoils, and which language refuses to describe. |
| Suppose that a person's body recoils when he hears brown cow but not when he hears either brown or cow alone. |
| What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance. |
| Albany recoils from the savage ethos in which his wife lives, foreseeing both her own destruction and that of the universe itself as a consequence of unbridled self-interest. |
| When you breathe out, both diaphragm and intercostal muscles relax, and the lung recoils decreasing the size of your chest cavity. |
| She recoils at the idea that she's simply lending her name to these products. |
