Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use recoil in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word recoil? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
I made it lighter, and manipulated the chamber, so that it fires twice as fast without losing any control or gaining consequent recoil.
The assembly is strong and rigid, with no ring or scope movement from recoil.
The recoil, for example, was negligible, and the gun was certainly not on a hair-trigger.
The recoil brought the barrel upwards and it smacked into her face, leaving a livid bruise.
Since the claw flexor muscle in insects has no antagonist, claws and arolium are moved back by elastic recoil of stretched exocuticle.
There is an unusual combination spacer and recoil buffer made of an alloy of brass, titanium and magnesium.
The good stock design and soft recoil pad, along with an all-up weight of around 8 pounds, kept recoil tolerable.
Similar damage is caused by the alpha recoil, which is a trace of the energy released during the alpha decay of uranium and thorium isotopes.
Given the stout recoil and the heavy weight of the ammo, this is a very wise idea.
One of the useful touches found on both models is a resilient recoil pad that carries a polymer insert in the heel.
With any blowback design, it's fairly common for the hammer spring to help slow down slide recoil.
When you're shooting two guns at once, your aim flails about wildly in response to the recoil, making it difficult to be accurate.
The base pin, which seems to be more closely fitted than on earlier examples, showed no tendency to walk forward under recoil.
It's pretty common for the top cartridge in the magazine to move forward a bit under recoil.
One of the universal observations by shooters who have fired the short magnums is their surprisingly mild recoil compared to standard magnums.
So I respond to the German philosophical tradition in terms of its recoil from scientism.
They achieve these efficient ballistics with moderate recoil, even in rifles that are light and portable enough to be carded comfortably.
A line would be threaded through this piece of wood and again through the gun to prevent recoil when the gun was fired.
The large recoil lug is integral with the receiver, and the bottom of the receiver has a wide, flat bedding surface.
These are designed to absorb the energy of recoil gradually, avoiding violent shock or movement of the carriage.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
When events occur which disturb my life, I always have a movement of recoil.
Also, the violent recoil by which a carronade is often thrown off the slide of its carriage.
Carriage and recuperator, or recoil mechanism, together are known as the mount.
The rapidity and sinuosity of its motions, its quick spring and sharp recoil, prove the aptness of the illustration.
At London the horologist, G. Clement, solved the problem in 1675 with his rack escapement and recoil anchor.
The recoil was taken up by a heavy hempen hawser fastened to the bulwarks and passed through the cascabel of the gun.
It was attached to a linstock, a forked stick long enough to keep the cannoneer out of the way of the recoil.
And he, looking coolly and obeying her commands, knew there was no chance of the kick-up of the recoil producing a miss.
Doubtless the self-respect of the woman was in no way wounded by the master's recoil.
The whole mechanism of the transfer and of the recoil may best be expressed in terms of the conditioned reflex of Pavlov.
This recoil is the slight motion backwards which the escape wheel makes at each tick.
Shocked by the sound of my own name, I was ready to recoil abashed.
The pistol has no recoil and hardly more noise than an air gun.
The autoloading gun is reloaded and cocked again wholly by its own recoil.
The recoil, catching him in a bad posture, knocked him backward.
This relieves that heavy mainspring tension, and leaves only the recoil spring to resist the shooter's rearward pull of the slide.
Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
His six 50's flamed and the recoil set the Thunderbolt back on her flaps.
No amount of firearm recoil experience can prepare you for the hard slap a magnum spring gun will hit you with.
About half the mass weight is at the end of the stabilizer where it lessens recoil by applying resistance to the flexible body.
Show More Sentences
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
6-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024