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Use back-down in a sentence

Definition of back down:

  • (verb) move backwards from a certain position; "The bully had to back down"
  • (verb) remove oneself from an obligation | to take a less aggressive position in a conflict than one previously has or has planned to.

Sentence Examples:

He wandered back down the store and his pianos looked back at him like strangers.

He moved slowly, back down the unseen street.

Or perhaps they have promised him money, and wish to back down.

His idea is that we might make a dash back down the Straits.'

Some fell where they lay, others rolled helplessly back down the steep slope to the beach.

He took hold of my hand, and we started running back down the road together.

It was so cold I come back down here.

Slowly he crawled back down the hill, and was lost in the gathering darkness.

Nick stopped in a hopeless sort of way, and looked back down the street.

They worked slowly back down the Avenue.

"We've got to be sports now and not back down," was the only thing she would say.

"Can you find your way back down the ravine to our lines, my lad?"

She slipped suddenly away from him, retreating back down the room.

The young cowboy was coming back down the street, some part of the car over his shoulder.

I looked back down the hill; I could not see our own men.

However, he objected, and we walked back down the railroad track.

Now they are going back down the incline.

Starr swore, but that did not bring the man back down the trail.

"Perhaps that is why you were in such a hurry to get back down the road," said Chester.

As the wagon pulled out, we mounted our horses and rode back down the trail.

Neil had not bargained for a quarrel with Paul, but was too incensed to back down.

I remember I went back down to one of those revivals years afterwards.

The woman in the red waist summoned an attendant to show him back down the long corridor.

In a fire of resolution she hastened back down the terrace steps.

I am not looking for a fight, nor will I back down from one.

There the victim mounted his own animal and rode back down the river.

He backed down, and yet not altogether.

They felt assured that he would not back down after having gone so far.

If Bob Henderson were here in her situation Betty was sure he would not back down.

The younger men left him at the dam and went back down the trail to their camp.

The voice thundered from the forward part of the raft, and swept back down the river.

"I can't stop, but I want to say we're not afraid of your backing down."

The steamer backed down, and in a few moments more the party was safely on board again.

In a minute Bobby followed his tail, hastily backing down the tree.

With a groan of despair, Acton ran back down the slope.

Jack backed down so fast that he fell over his feet.

He went back down the stairs, and Nelly shut the door.

There was no backing down, don't you see!

Would you back down if this was your call?

A freight engine soon came to the spot, backing down the express car.

If either of us should back down, the whole thing would fall to the ground.

Then the bully will have to back down or take his medicine.

Then he lay back down and fell asleep.

He knew that his men would lose all respect for him if he backed down now.

All the world will be shouting tomorrow how our King has backed down.

As her sister's hand drew the curtain, she turned and sped back down the court.

I'd never have any respect for myself if I was to back down now.

Vandenberg, then Chief of Staff, before it was batted back down.

The answer to the last question was "No," and the lid snapped back down.

Then he turned and ran back down the drive and across the wide lawn to the window.

Andy rode on to find Patsy and send him back down the line with the water wagon.

"This ladder has to be lowered back down the trap before another visitor arrives!"

The other three walked back down town.

Then he took a capsule from his pocket, gulped it down with some water, and sat back down.

On his gray horse he watched Pickett lead his immortal charge and fall back down the hill.

Golding had gone back down to the day-room.

Then he accompanied Andy and the others on their way back down the corridor.

His regard, sweeping her critically, went its way back down the mountain side.

He turned and headed back down the trail.

As they walked back down the corridor Steve asked one question of the director.

She sat back down on the jump seat.

Better back down a bit before you turn.

And turning, dove back down the twisted trail.

Get back down to this table, let me spread my mess.

He sits back down on box and picks at his guitar.

He eased it back down to the floor on his knees and dropped it the last few inches.

She started back down the hall, but Grace caught her.

Waterman led the way back down the mountain.

He asked at last and as nobody answered him he glanced swiftly back down the trail.

She turned without another word, walked slowly back down the walk and through the gate.

"She was hitting all right when you backed down here," Nolan remarked easily.

The minister backed down the ladder and the doctor followed him.

Coffin was glancing back down the hall with a strange expression on her face.

Two of the Toughs were just burned down, and the others are falling back down the hall.

And they made their way back down to the control room.

"You must back down to the next gate," said the farmer.

I expected it, since you never back down.

She backed down the steps and made her way to the back door.

Anyone who backs down now is a coward!

"I am not going to back down, no matter how hard the work is," he told himself.

Bob took just one look at it, and then hastily backed down the ridge again.

Russia's back-down has taken ten million soldiers from the Allies' strength.

He puts on the shoe and looks back down the track again.

He finally backed down entirely, and concluded to wait.

In this way he is some distance back down the stream from the boat.

Then first backing down to her on the very top of high water, we went "full speed ahead."

"Do you mean, Dick, that you're going back down there in that awful pass?"

He began deliberately to back down the tree.

Long did so and named his price but when he learned who had bid me off he backed down.

"That's the man who put up the cabin a mile back down the river?"

Again and again it reared, backing down towards the edge of the cliff.

Then she looked back down at her hands.

Papa looked back down at the tired, fat dog.

However, the casualty list ought to bring you back down to earth.

He seized her hands and drew her back down by him on the sofa.

She backed down the stream about twenty rods, and then he stopped her.

Slowly the soldiers who had climbed nearest to the boys drew back down the stairs.

I say I would "back down" to save the country.

"If you back down now, do you know what I'll do?"

I looked back down the side we had just cleared.