Baulk used in a sentence

Baulk in a sentence as a noun

The guys who would have paid you will baulk at the 2x fee.

If they baulk at that then they are obviously pretty keen.

It works but only in a few well-defined ways that modern software shops would probably baulk at.

I think, then, that you mean "Intelligent suite ..."I for one, baulk at the term "intelligent" in this context.

Don't baulk at supplying a minimum of tea/coffee/sugar/milk, nice water and potentially snacks too.

People who care about data, have spreadsheets, and need some interoperability will not baulk at $29, $50 or even $200/mth.

I think it's slowly been changing over the years, but people still baulk at paying prices that would sustain small family farms without imported cheap labour.

Baulk in a sentence as a verb

Although in fairness to UK Gov, they are pretty forward thinking when it comes to open sourcing infrastructure that others would baulk at open sourcing [1].

After that, people did then tend to pile on and baulk at other unsafe code that was probably OK, because the author had been proven untrustworthy in using unsafe code.

It's a classic negotiating tactic, like when you ask for a pay-rise: you want 10%, so you ask for 20%; they baulk at your `insane' demand, then you `settle' for a more reasonable 10%.

Didn’t the other carriers baulk at Apple and tell them to pound-sand for thinking they’d let them use their network without any oversight of their phone’s software system or similar?

I find this a fine counterpoint to people who come to git from other version control systems and baulk when they see it, it's an interesting alternative perspective to the whole "good UI/bad UI" discussion.

Sometimes something they are even screening for is to make sure the person is not going to baulk when they discover the reality of the code they are now involved in and who will be pragmatic enough to work with it try and make it better rather than declare it's a disaster and not their fault.