recoil - use in sentences
Object
- atom: Along its path, an individual projectile may create fast recoil atoms which in turn may initiate collision cascades of moving target atoms.
- energy: The amount of light produced depends on the recoil energy.
- effect: We continue to hold the notion that recoil effect on the shooter is about 85 percent mental.
- force: The purpose of the muzzle break is to reduce recoil forces.
- action: How come guns that fire energy bolts have a recoil action on them?
- system: Its recoil control system must be one of the wonders of modern science.
Preposition: at
- thought: I recoil at the thought of how misguided I then was.
- prospect: But many recoil at the prospect that Plato is such a skeptic.
Modifying Another Word
- no: The " no recoil " u see on the video is not a cheat.
- then: WIEDER touches her, then recoils from the heat of her burned skin.
- back: Time is expanded by a dramatic action which recoils back on itself eventually demonstrating the eternal repetition of certain moments.
- n't: But all too often we do n't recoil from our sin and reject it immediately.
- not: And we should not recoil from our national history - rather we should make it more central to our education.
- now: I recoil now to think how " brave " I used to be.
Used with why or when
- when: There's a dab of ET in the way his extra-terrestrials try fooling around with a bicycle and nervously recoil when it falls over.
Preposition: in
- horror: Now, some of you may recoil in horror at this idea.
- shock: The pit has been closed and the defeated community recoils in shock.
- disgust: Many of my readers will have recoiled in disgust at that last paragraph as true as they find the final assertion.
Preposition: from
- idea: But I recoiled from the idea of this bondage.
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