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"Balk" in a Sentence (17 examples)
RushmoreDrive.Com President and CEO Johnny Taylor is pleased with the feedback he's gotten since the website's launch early this year. Still, some critics balk at the idea of a race-based search engine. Isn't that "discrimination," they ask? Taylor's response: diversity is a cornerstone of the American marketplace.
How fruitfull are the ſeeming Barren places of Scripture. Bad Plow-men, which make Balkes of ſuch Ground.
, "Concealment of Sin" a balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker
Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat.
Nor doth he any creature balk, / But lays on all he meeteth.
By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the inns.
I'le call ye to Accompt, and if ye bauke me, then / I ranſake ye out, and make ye underſtand / The ſharp-nail'd language of Quiſquilla's hand.
Balked for the second time, the passion of his grief had found another outlet, was transformed into a passion of agonized rage.
The horse balked.
I’ve seen cattle that were handled in two identical facilities easily walk through one and balk in the other.
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Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more
to balk expectation
Well, / I know that none who enter there return / As they have enter'd—many never; but / They shall not balk my entrance.
Her list in strifull termes with him to balke
But so well halt no man the plough, / That he ne balketh other while
Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, / Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see.
The best advice you can receive regarding balking is to always maintain poise and composure on the mound.
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