Use "balking" in a sentence

1. Realizing that the President was ready to have him relieved if he kept balking, Huntsman shook his head

2. But she was balking out of…what? Some principled bullshit that if it couldn’t last, it wasn’t worth pursuing at all? Did she think they could just turn it off like a switch?

3. “What?” verbally balking, she walked into the shadows bidden by abduction's oldest temptation

4. "No Gate opens for me," Aesa said, balking at the idea of having the entire Council watch him fail at entering a Gate