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make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
He backed out of his earlier promise
The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
How To Use back away In A Sentence
- If a group leader's philosophy and beliefs are narrow and one-sided, then back away.
- Ah. Your five years. Actually back away an extreme direction.
- ‘Back away,’ Floyd directed, pointing a large stick of chalk at Kyle.
- They back away and by all appearances become apathetic. Christianity Today
- Never one to back away from a fight, his political career was studded with duels and bloody street brawls.
- Around 5:30 p.m., a Soyuz spacecraft piloted by Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev and carrying a NASA astronaut and an Italian astronaut will undock from a port 50 feet from Endeavour and back away to a distance of about 650 feet. Soyuz undocking could be shuttle photo opp
- Tie-backs are a decorative effect using a cord, chain, rope or cloth to secure the draperies back away from the window.
- They would dance towards each other, each holding a sheet end, then back away, pulling the sheet taut between them, then advance again, and so on.
- When the cue hits the object ball it will bend the tangent line back away from the corner.
- He'll flirt with gaudy science-fiction spectacles and then, at the last moment, back away.