Many people still recoil from colloquialisms and contractions that pass comfortably in speech.

Many people would recoil at the idea of dealing with such a tainted outfit.

The three Futuremen made a spectacle so strange that many people would have recoiled from them in terror.

And people saw that knowledge in him, and recoiled.

That means most trans fat is artificial, which causes many people to recoil.

What he said was anybody's guess, but people recoiled from Camille as though she carried the Great War plague.

I do it my way, she roared at him, and saw people recoil.

And I say 'dared' because cowardice is something that people recoil from, and you risk losing the sympathy of the audience.

It did so without any theatrical fireworks or advocating the kind of drastic fashion change that makes sensitive people recoil in shock.

Bob Dole was talking about the era when many people recoiled at the thought of mingling black and white blood.