balk

a balk to one's plans

The horse balked at the jump.

They balked the robber's plan.

He balked in his speech.

She balked at the very idea of compromise.

They braced up the old house with balks of timber.

I wanted to buy the dress, but I balked at the high price.

It was a fine apartment in which we found ourselves, large, lofty, and heavily raftered with huge balks of age-blackened oak.

I wanted to buy the blouse , but I balked at the high price.

Why would they balk at a chance to topple him?

But they “balk at assuming the risks and burdens” that global leadership entails.

Then he balked at his bonus one year and got popped.

The gods balked at this request and were ready to send him away.

Yet historians often balk at telling the tumultuous, ideologically charged story in one go.

Many potential applicants, she said, balked at the sticker price, and did not investigate further.

The CIA balked, Sater claims, and the group retreated to Dushanbe, then back to Moscow.

Some may balk at the idea of limiting dual nationality.

It is too much to be balked by so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome.