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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:

"They'll think I've backed down from you," he said gloomily.

We'll cram the words back down their throats and be hanged to 'em.

It fell back down on one of the porcupines, and a hundred quills drove into its body.

Duane backed down the middle of the vestibule, up the steps, and halted in the center of the wide doorway.

He made his way back down to his stateroom, which was already filled with his luggage.

All of these things went through his head, as he jogged his mustang back down the hill.

Quite cheerfully they took up their long, painstaking journey back down the river.

They piled into the car and drove back down to the sunny fields on the leeward side.

He scrambled hurriedly back down the broken parapet into the trench.

He had tied the fish into a bundle with aspen leaves and damp moss around them, and now they went back down the stream.

In the meantime Joe had caused the damaged ship to drift back down toward the asteroid out of radar range.

Jenner pushed Gene away and the three of them shot back down the stairwell.

As he tightened the rope the lioness backed down behind a branch.

The booze had him going, and he was too proud to back down.

The trolley car had been halted and backed down to the scene.

She set herself doggedly to walk back down the slope of the aisle, not daring to look ahead for Louis.

The hobbled stuff didn't come back down the trail and must be below there too.

I stand pat, just where I stood at first, and it'll take a lot uh cackling to make me back down.

I wish I'd made you back down when you first talked temperance to me.

Said Canning, also glancing back down the dingy street.

The bull charged, backed down, and amused himself by tossing dirt over his shoulders and grumbling like distant thunder.

The riders were returning and the Dean and the stranger walked back down the little hill to the corral.

They began to walk back down the mossy path again.

I don't back down a darn inch.

Resolutely banning the raven-winged specter, he slid back down the ledge and gently wakened Iris.

The arch rebel, in a recent address to his satellites, admits that he altogether underestimated the patriotism and loyalty of the men of the North, but takes fresh courage from the certainty that we shall shortly back down under our load of debt.

These catches of music have no end, and no beginning; they rise, linger a moment, and are gone, leaving behind them an indescribable loneliness of soul, and a longing to stretch one's hand back down the centuries to pluck their meaning from the past.

How the woman backed down, and he got off with a strip of his pelt gone?

He hurried back down the passage, and made his way as before to the wharf.

They said we were a lot of dandies in the regiment, and that if it ever came to fighting, people'd see us back down!

This was a large, round gourd, on top of which a bow of unusual size was placed with its back down.

This alacrity for combat clearly backed down Ward.

He tucked the pedestal under his arm, and they started back down the road together.

Henry went noiselessly back down-stairs and into his own room.

It's when he comes ping against a buzz-saw and finds it's a fact that he has to pay or back down or lose out.

If we back down on exploration, our audience will be disgusted and resentful, and they'll take it out on our sponsors!

Then the freighter carries it to its destination and shoots it back down to a receiver.

The trio in the canoe then drifted back down the river, and were soon lost to view beyond the overhanging branches.

Bellowing in fear and pain, it turned and lumbered back down the trail.

Slowly the shattered regiment fell back down the bloody slope, stumbling over their dead and wounded.

The boys herded them warily back down the hillside toward the road, where Bud had parked his red convertible.

And many other similar expressions of welcome greeting him on all sides, as he turned from blocking the wheels of his wagon, which else might have backed down the slight incline that led to Traveler's Rest.

For some minutes the five occupants of the car waited to see if it would start back down the grade.

He must 'a' been scared, to beat it back down the road afoot.

We'll back down, son, and not obstruct the gentleman's door.

I knew him; and I knew he would rather break his neck than back down, if I egged him on judiciously.

Something had gone out of the glory and enchantment of the day as they went back down the hillside.

He lifted his foot to put it back down to a lower step, just as Sheila's muffled voice shrilled out a fog of profanity.

The freight engine, in backing down the track to be coupled, or fastened, to the cars, had banged into them rather hard.

By the time we got there the tackle had been burned, and the car was back down again in a crumpled mass.

Jones backed down, and laboriously began to climb the other tree.

Your idea of backing down there around the turn and burying the booze was all right.

Now he was just about where he had been several hours before, and even Casey Ryan could not help realizing what a fine target he would make if he attempted to climb back down the bluff to camp before darkness again hid his movements.

When I couldn't get in I went back down the corridor to where the light is and scribbled that note.

Carefully and cleanly, he severed the big artery that carried the blood-fluid back down to the upper heart.

The three cadets turned and headed back down the aisle to their seats.

"I'll have to get another ship," said Dick, watching the small spindly figure as it backed down the companion-ladder.

Then he pattered back down the stairs.

He backed down the ladder, and groped in the darkness towards the bunks with outstretched hand.

The rebels came on heroically, but were sent reeling back down the slope in confusion and disorder.

He holds the shoe in his hand a moment and looks wistfully back down the railroad track.

Simon sat back down at the controls and carefully repositioned the ship.

We could tell he was about to fall asleep, for every time he tried to open up his eyelids, they drooped back down again.

I went back down the passageway jumping.

The little fellow wasn't backing down a step in spite of the attempts of the other Lowers to usurp his place.

At length, when he had satisfied himself that he had got ahead of the sheep, he would come out gently in advance of them, and drive them back down the lane so quietly as not to give them the least alarm.

Should, then, the patriot army endeavor to extricate itself by falling back down the river?

Much to my surprise, he went back down south and returned to European seas.

I have gone up a ladder fifteen feet, got the bees in the hive in this way, and backed down without difficulty.

Going back down the room, there may be time to notice the cases on the sides of the partitions full of stuffed birds, many very beautiful, but not so interesting as those that are shown with their nests and young ones.

She stopped and glanced back down the winding dale.

Some even went back down the mountainside.

Instantly the cheese swells him up so that he cannot change gears nor retreat back down the hole, and as he circles about, flapping helplessly, you lean over the side of the boat and laugh him to death!

He cowered back down at their feet, his courage swamped in funk.

They went back down and congregated around where the village had been.

He lay back down again, and stretched his cramped muscles.

When that man says back down then surely doomsday is not far off.

Waving his saber, he rode back down the hill.

He had surmised that the men had seen him coming back down the trail to the powder house with his human burden.

He watched it turn back down the road, then picked up the valise with his camera and folding shovel.

He looked back down, memorizing the elevator, and then pulled the hatch shut again.

They picked up the limp form, and staggered slowly back down the passage.

Kendrick turned like a drunken man and staggered back down the aisle.

They got him out of the parabolic curve and headed back down.

As the warder was taking him back down the long passage he looked round once more.

"Good afternoon, cousin," said the wood-mouse and backed down into her hole until only her nose peeped out.

Should you get a glimpse of his side you might well think it but the ripple of sunlight and shadow in the water, so well is this simulated by the broad bands of green and yellow which run from the dark back down the sides.

I think the owl has learned to distinguish me from the rest of the passers-by; at least, when I stop before him, and he sees himself observed, he backs down into his den, as I have said, in a very amusing manner.

He was slowly and cautiously backing down from the high seat as I stopped beside the reaper.

They walked back down the path from the top of the crag, and soon Smith saw other students in groups of two and three.

The vertigo was pretty bad, and I flopped back down, or rather "up" and tried to regain my equilibrium.

Captain Webber saluted tiredly and walked back down the long corridor.

Then he hurled it back down the tunnel with all his force.

After waiting a few minutes, Penny tiptoed back down the hall.

Then, with the headlights vainly trying to bore through the almost stifling smoke, they raced back down the road.

The doe made a leap into the air, made a jump or two down the hill and went down, while the rest of the deer made two or three jumps up the hill towards me and stopped and looked back down the hill in the direction of the doe that I had shot.

When the cars were backed down from the siding, he boarded the sleeper.

Should be time enough for us to scurry back down the rabbit hole.

Nina sat back down on her flowered chaise and closed her eyes.

I was coming back down the stairs a little unsteadily, like a half-drunk samurai.