balking造句
1. He balked at making the suggestion.
2. The burro balked at climbing the path.
3. Even biology undergraduates may balk at animal experiments.
4. Many people would balk at setting up a new business during a recession.
5. They braced up the old house with balks of timber.
6. The police balked the attempt to kidnap the child.
7. They were balked of their prey.
8. The horse balked at the high fence.
9. She balked at the price.
10. John balked at paying such a lot of money to buy the computer.
11. Westerners balk at the prospect of snake on the menu.
12. I wanted to buy the dress, but I balked at the high price.
13. He balked his responsibility.
14. Last October the bank balked, alarmed that a $24m profit had turned into a $20m deficit.
15. His parents balked at the cost of the guitar he wanted.
16. I balked at the prospect of spending four hours on a train with him.
17. But when the time came for the annual bail-out, the recession-strapped Culture Ministry balked.
18. Balked of Alfred, she would find Harry Washington a more than acceptable alternative.
19. The general problem for anarchists has been that a majority of most civilised populations will balk at attacks on the innocent.
20. And the same tensions continued after 1975 as southern Communists balked at domination by their northern comrades.
21. However, the insurance company is balking at insuring against Cigar this year.
22. But the Sox are balking at giving up two center fielders.
23. Pete Wilson is balking at accepting the funds, which are second-year grants awarded under federal legislation known as Goals 2000.
24. German banks are balking at writing off Greek debt.
25. Republicans and many conservative Democrats are balking on the cost of the reform, which could reach one trillion dollars over the next several years.
26. Investors are already balking at the heavy use of printing presses.
27. Chinese wine collectors are balking at the high price of top Bordeaux wines. Can those same collectors keep pushing prices for Burgundy too?
28. Balking at the top of a three-story evacuation slide can lead to a push, sending you cart-wheeling down and resulting in broken ankles.
29. But the bill also faces opposition from some environmentalists, who are balking at the compromises the sponsors made to gain political support.
30. I asked him to sit down and he, after balking a second, sat quietly in the chair with his hands sandwiched by two legs, nervously twisting his fingers.
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