I recoiled when I saw how gaunt she had become.

I recoiled in disgust.

He recoiled before his master's anger.

Tom leant in to kiss Mary, but she recoiled with a grimace.

Tom recoiled in disgust.

She felt that she could sympathise with the feelings of a proud mind, which urged him to recoil from the proffered gratitude of the new proprietors of his father's house and domains.

I recoiled in horror.

Interstellar, as opposed to interplanetary, travel was quite impossible until the advent of sub-atomic power. Fortunately this source of power was seldom gained until late in a world's development, when mentality was mature enough to wield this most dangerous of all physical instruments without inevitable disaster. Disasters, however, did occur. Several worlds were accidentally blown to pieces. In others civilization was temporarily destroyed. Sooner or later, however, most of the minded worlds tamed this formidable djin, and set it to work upon a titanic scale, not only in industry, but in such great enterprises as the alteration of planetary orbits for the improvement of climate. This dangerous and delicate process was effected by firing a gigantic sub-atomic rocket-apparatus at such times and places that the recoil would gradually accumulate to divert the planet's course in the desired direction.

This is a great rifle to snipe with, if you can handle the recoil.

All recoiled at the sound of his voice and the determined action by which it was accompanied.