Recoil in a sentence as a noun

The recoil buffer won't work if it's too heavy, so it has to be aluminum.

"The gun firing produces more force through recoil on the plane then is produced by one of the plane's engines.

There are many emotions connected to them, which makes you recoil from touching them.

I have a terrible sense of smell, and sometimes I'm forced to recoil from my more nerdy peers.

How can anyone possibly hear what they are saying in these plans and not recoil with horror and disgust?

Did anyone else recoil in horror at how a simple function is turned into a type hierarchy?

[17] While this recoil force is significant, in practice cannon fire only slows the aircraft a few miles per hour in level flight.

A person will recoil in abject horror at even the possibility of admitting to have done such a thing.

Recoil in a sentence as a verb

However, in making this switch, he created a horrible mutation that anyone can rightly recoil at.

I do not recoil from apt because it regularly and repeatedly both cleanly installs and removes any software it claims to support.

People consider trading sacred values for money so morally reprehensible that they recoil at such proposals.

Thise not equipped to understand the real engineering and business problems will surely elevate Musk to even greater genious status and recoil at the very idea of criticizing him.

For every such executive and professional who would be deemed "helped" by overtime laws that might be extended to apply to their jobs, there would undoubtedly be many who would recoil at the limitations of suddenly not being able to do their jobs without regard to the scope of hours worked.

In exerting a downward force upon the air, the wing receives an upward counterforce--by the same principle, known as Newton's law of action and reaction, which makes a gun recoil as it shoves the bullet out forward; and which makes the nozzle of a fire hose press backward heavily against the fireman as it shoots out a stream of water forward.

Fun fact: I have known this intuitively since forever, but only recently realized that when I say "generic", most programmers I know tend to hear "exhaustive", and recoil in horror; while I really meant "generic".Now, I also know why I like parametric polymorphism, and dislike subclass polymorphism: the first is generic, while the second is exhaustive.

Recoil definitions

noun

the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired

See also: kick

noun

a movement back from an impact

See also: repercussion rebound backlash

verb

draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"

See also: flinch squinch funk cringe shrink wince quail

verb

come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble"

See also: backfire backlash

verb

spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

See also: bounce resile spring bound rebound reverberate ricochet

verb

spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder"

See also: kick