How To Use Back down In A Sentence

Jay snuggled back down into his goose down pillows and picked up a tennis ball to ideally throw at the ceiling, then he looked at Chris who was still fumbling with his words.
You feel like Sisyphus - condemned to roll that same damn rock up the same damn hill for all eternity, only to watch it roll back down inches from the top.
But the British Museum is refusing to back down and insists the chessmen are the highlight within the new Paul and Jill Ruddock Gallery of Medieval Europe. Evening Standard - Home
I sat back down and resumed my editing, sticking the grape lollipop back in my mouth.
An enlisted aircrewman directed them to seats in the middle of the aircraft, then trotted back down the ramp to check for any more late arrivals. Joint Operations

Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
We said good night and took the elevator back down.
Will tried to conjure up their blissful months together but before long he spiralled back down again. Times, Sunday Times
Slowly slide your back down the wall until you are in a sitting position, as though seated on an imaginary chair.
The single most important thing is for Latham not to back down or revert to crudity.
They had an eight-hour walk back down the mountain and then had to wait until they were at normal altitude before they could have a celebratory drink. Times, Sunday Times
They both found a manhole cover and climbed back down into the sewer system.
Unions confirmed last week they were already planning timetables for strike ballots if the government does not back down. Times, Sunday Times
In everyday life, the greater the distance between points A and B, and the more rugged the intervening landscape, the bleaker are the odds for success of a blindfolded walk, even—or perhaps especially—when following a simple-minded rule like “always climb higher; never back down.” The Edge of Evolution
And say, ‘Let's get a hustle on back down backstairs, this wind is about to blow us both overboard!’
Then Sunday morning, Pete's scooching me back down to Baltimore, where I'll be meeting up with Greg & John, et al.
We wound our way back down the State of New South Wales through pretty towns like Cootamundra and Young cherry capital of Australia and ugly ones like Albury-Wodonga and then we were back in Victoria and we turned towards the high country and stopped in Bright and stayed there for three days. What I cooked last night.
Then she turned on her heel and we marched back down the hall.
In his next fight, Taylor dropped back down to welterweight, where he was matched against a giant welterweight in Crisanto Espana.
Destiny put her stuff in one of the empty drawers in her dresser and sat back down at the table with tears in her eyes.
Then step back down and back to original standing position. The Sun
Then step back down and back to original standing position. The Sun
The King slowly sat back down, lines creasing his face as if he were suffering a horrible headache.
Paul disappeared upstairs, and came back down with a dry sweater and a thick woollen blanket.
In Grindelwald Bruno, Max and Lola took the option of heading back down the mountain on a trottinette (scooter) instead of the SAFER and more ENJOYABLE option of going down in the cable car. Kitschenette - life in the swiss lane
My knees were knocking just a little by the time I got down and I would recommend anyone who didn't like loose rock and scree to go back down the way they came.
She did not back down, instead she continued drawling, ‘My patience is wearing thin, so follow closely and remain quiet if you would like to know the way to your room.’
We circle back down to our boat, passing through crowded Turkish cemeteries.
Local residents have forced the local council to back down from/on its plans to build a nightclub in their street.
The ball glanced on a bounce off the foot of a spectator and back down toward the fairway.
If we back down, we'll lose credibility, but if we go to war we'll look like bullheaded unilateralists.
So far, every time the reformers have tried to open up the system, the hardliners have closed it back down.
The following dealer looks for another ace, the next for a king, then a queen and so on, creating a separate sequence from the second ace back down to another two.
Both the government and the opposition insist that they won't back down of their dispute over the re-election of president Ahamadnijad. Jemmy Boean reports from Tehran.
The roan gelding set off immediately and the buggy headed back down the road to pass under the large stone arch.
He decided that since the loft was up high, and the mail needed to come back down, they should have a mail chute to send the mail down to the carriers' boxes for delivery.
He looked back down at his work before an idea suddenly struck him.
January 28th, 2009 at 1: 26 pm the danger the northern menace poses to the US has lessened now that the looney is back down to 83 cents. Matthew Yglesias » My Long-Awaited Revenge
We drove from Los Angeles for three days to reach Portland, whereupon I flew back down here to go to work.
The leadership would not back down over upfront tax cuts, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Even with her vegetation obsession, she was unyielding and did not back down from ridicule or teasing.
The mud weighs about 13 pounds per gallon and is much heavier than the oil, so it should push -- or "bullhead" -- the oil back down the well toward its origin in the ancient rock more than 13,000 feet below the wellhead. BP aims to plug gulf oil well for good with two-pronged 'kill' shot
The white side of the fortress surfaced briefly, a breaching white whale, before waves splashed up the sides and it rolled back down into the deeps.
He looked back down, gritted his teeth, and continued to chop wood into kindling.
Clarke has responded to his critics with a dollop of wistful regret, followed by an adamant refusal to back down.
‘Guess I'll spend one more night in this hellhole,’ he said, walking back down the road into the city.
Instead it is a springboard upon which to hurtle back downwards at approaching the speed of light. Times, Sunday Times
She flopped back down into the glider, setting it swinging wildly for a moment.
Even in the latter case he occasionally breaks away for a more or less extended period, and either goes fishing in Canada, shooting in Scotland, or automobiling in France, with perhaps a rush over a Swiss pass or two, and a dash around the Italian lakes, and back down the Rhine for a little tour in Great Britain. The Automobilist Abroad
But the end of that answer is perfectly correct - the issue is the reradiation back down to Earth, which a small quantity of CO2 can of course do indefinitely without limit on the total energy exchanged. Rabett Run
I follow the trail back down through the forest, past glades of ferns glistening with the mist of slow-running falls on their way back to the ocean.
‘It's go time,’ I thought to myself, as I downshifted back down to fourth gear, matched my revs and punched the throttle.
Local residents have forced the local council to back down from/on its plans to build a nightclub in their street.
I dropped back down on my bed and patted down some pokey ends of loose fluff and feather down idly, and heard the door open.
After several intense cabinet meetings, Obama appeared to back down and go along with a Panetta proposal to heavily "redact" - black out-all references to specific interrogation techniques, say the administration sources. AfterDowningStreet.org - Bush-Cheney Trials in '09
His mother sank back down onto the couch and plucked at the seat.
We retreated back down the mountain.
Air compressed on the upstroke helps push the piston back down, minimizing energy loss.
Then lower yourself back down slowly and repeat. The Sun
‘No good trying to escape me, miss,’ he said and dragged her back down to the brig.
I didn't rate any chance of a retreat back down and could have so easily become trapped in between the pitches.
A long, lingering snow patch gave a superb standing glissade back down to the col before the last scramble up to An Caisteal, the castle.
I slid my hands up his chest and then back down to his rock-hard stomach.
She soon settled back down to rest in her cot, spying Sister Adalaine from the corner of her eye.
She sat back down and spooned some stew into her mouth.
The porters struck camp and headed back down the valley towards Gangotri.
A series of photograph of two toddlers earnestly stacking a pile of blocks only to knock them back down will be accompanied by this dialogue.
It's too late to back down now.
Rather than a repeat of July 2008, where everything just collapsed, it will be this slow-burning monetary tightening," she says, predicting that it will be 2012 before these anti-inflation measures really start to bite, choking off demand in the emerging world and bringing the oil price back down to earth. Still-fragile world economy braced for effects of another oil shock
She settles back down and makes a gesture for Bill to lie on her lap again.
When I got to the company who was interviewing me, I rolled my sleeves back down and realised I'd sweated so much the sleeves were all wet and they'd crinkled up as well.
Wright imagined five stepped ceiling planes up and out from the stage, reflecting sound back down toward the rear of the house.
When she sits back down, my mouth makes one of its first and most terrible swift blunders.
An instant later several more bursts of fire followed, and the ship bucked into the air and then smashed back down, its landing struts sheering off completely.
But he rammed the cruel taunts back down their throats with a performance that showcased his character as his quality. The Sun
Reality of the situation came back down when I heard the chimes go through the house and I froze, horrified.
I grabbed a black derby hat from my closet and covered my messy hair before following Jake back down the stairs and out to his car.
In an open office, its acoustic function is to absorb sound and reduce the reflection of sounds back down into the office space.
I ran to the stair chamber, listening to the footfalls of the figure come back down the stairs with another pair of feet pattering quickly behind.
She tried to stand but decided her knees would knock together, so she sat back down.
If hitting the ball uphill, you had to calculate how far back downhill it would roll, and at what angle.
Addingham were trying to spread play out wide but each time they lost possession, the ball was banged straight back down route one style.
I have a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly, I would like to see some serious depredation on the wolves - to get them back down to the original numbers FWS promised to maintain - not ten times more than that. Wolfing One Down...
As a conversationalist, Birkin is a whirlwind, skimming over subjects, lifting them up, reshaping them utterly before throwing them back down.
Company bosses have come back down to earth with a bump after a period of post-election euphoria.
Then they jolted back down to earth and bumped into the ditch in the middle of the divider. JANAKY AND THE GIANT
Suddenly she was brought to an upright position, blood rushed back down from her previously upside down head, before it came back up to flame her pale face.
Arming myself with some broken furniture I crept back downstairs.
She put her clothes back down while listening to the crepitating sound from the dry leaves in Leo's cage and then walked down the stairs and jumped onto the couch turning to the TV.
So will I be trotting back down to Woolwich tomorrow to find out more about it?
A string quartet played as they walked back down the aisle and the sun shone as guests played croquet on the lawn at the drinks reception. Times, Sunday Times
Mrs Duhig said the boy then went back downstairs and his mum checked on her other children before going down to "placate" him. Evening Mail news round-up
Every morning you get up, jump into the ocean, collect hagfish mucous, crawl back onto the beach, rub the slime all over your body, sunbathe for a few hours, and then let a couple of dozen Haitians sniff you before sitting back down to write all about it. Archive 2009-01-25
Back downstairs, the family room is a cosy space with an antique cast iron fireplace and walls painted in warm terracotta.
In the first 24 hours after childbirth, it rapidly drops back down to normal levels.
Larry's plan was to float about 10 meters above his backyard, enjoy a few hours in the air, and then pop some balloons with his gun to get back down.
I started back down the mountain to camp.
He looked back down at the ground and she clenched her fists tightly.
My job was to rub his back down with a rough towel when he came in.
They became a bit less violent over time, the extension stifling and his body slowly stopping its movement, each bawl dying down to a cough, dying down to hard breathing, then back down to normal.
I did also manage to get the paperwork process started this morning, although it turned out my driver's license alone wasn't enough so I had to go home and get my passport and then schlepp back down to city hall and wait on line all over again. Breakfast in Bed
She orgasms like this and settles back down again laying on top of my chest.
Perhaps you should back down, stop supporting the mass slaughter of unborn babies, and go off somewhere real quiet and decide whether you really want to be a Catholic.
The next day we venture to Livigno's highest runs on the Carosella 3000 gondola and plunge back down to earth.
If anyone ever challenges you to an egg eating contest, don't back down.
He'd watched some sort of long projectile fly up into the air, turn, and come crashing back down. THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
After an hour you reach the top, a shunting yard next to the phosphate mine, and then you trundle back down again through deep romantic chasms and caverns measureless to man.
Shannon gave cover fire for Andrew back down on the street, while Andrew tried to pick Chloe up.
The car began to roll back down the hill.
A few chickens squawked indignantly as the cold gust of air hit them, but they soon settled back down into their boxes, feathers ruffled to keep out the chill.
The car is so overladen with baggage that we can't see out the back window and four of us are white-knuckled with fear that the car will topple over and roll back down the hill.
Britain will slip back down the medals table and no doubt run into a barrage of press criticism about why we can't win anything any more. Times, Sunday Times
Ms. Murphy's mother, Tephanie Holston , said that about 45 minutes before the shooting, the young woman came up to the apartment and retrieved a sweat shirt and used the bathroom before going back downstairs to hang out with friends. High-School Basketball Star Is Slain
Gwyneth tried to get up by leaning on her left arm for support, but she winced in pain as she did so, and fell back down onto the soft feathery pillows.
I walked him back down to the slough and heaved a stick into the water.
She looked back down at the corpses of the dead guards and the bodies of the unconscious guards.
The trainer was frustrated with our recalcitrance but we refused to back down. Paul LaRosa: The Truth About Health Clubs
I sat back down in my seat and restrained myself from fanning my face where heat still lingered in my cheeks from our close encounter.
When that structure is complete, it starts unspooling an ultra-strong ribbon back down to the Pacific.
Instead of climbing back down to the seat with many grunts and exclamations, Philip stayed perched on the piano bench and started to sing scat.
Then I kneeled back down, took out a claymore, set it underneath my pack, and tied the string directly to my pack, and a low branch, so that if someone tries and picks it up, it'll blow up.
Continue straight along the enclosed track, which soon becomes a metalled lane, and follow this all the way back down into Gargrave.
So far, every time the reformers have tried to open up the system, the hardliners have closed it back down.
Just a little slower, maybe let the needle slip back down toward eighty, maybe seventy.
Rather than apologise or back down, Mac grizzled over a Queen's Club ban that he incurred after insulting the chairman's wife on a practice court days after his 1984 win, and opted not play in the championship for six years.
When you get High Altitude Sickness, if you don't go back down a thousand or two thousand feet, and rest until your body acclimates to that altitude, High Altitude Sickness turns into one of two things: either it goes into your lungs and turns into pulmonary edema or into your brain as cerebral edema where your brain swells, both of which can be fatal. Gary Stein: Craig Kiser's Blind Ambition to Benefit Thousands in Need
British holidaymakers are being urged not to back down when faced with demands for on-the-spot payments and should seek help from UK consular services. Times, Sunday Times
“Watch out below!” he called amiably, then double-checked that the alligator clips were firmly in place, shut the service-box door, and shinnied back down the pole. Kahawa
You just have to bring them back down and keep bubbling away. The Sun
I hopped over a few cardboard boxes and leaped up onto a couple of dumpsters, walking on top of them and then jumping back down just for the fun of it.
(except for tatting, which is lametably un-rip it rip it rip it-able) you can 'frog' that messed up project right back down to it's yarnie little zero state, and start all over again, no harm done, kiss and make up and better luck next time! photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright Hankering for Yarn
Part of me wanted to apologize to the man I had bumped into, but another part of me knew that I couldn't back down now if I wanted to become king of the roller disco.
But she has only just started toddling, arms up, legs unbent, back down on her chubby bum at the first sign of wobble. Here Comes the Night
One year an enterprising bunch of local lads, spotting a gap in the market, offered trips back down to the station on the handlebars of their bicycles.
They turned back down the hill and rode through the narrow passageway into the city.
She refused to back down on a point of principle.
Once you get to the high "do" you can either go back down the scale (do ti la sol fa mi re do), or continue up into the next octave (do re mi fa sol la ti do re mi fa sol la ti do...etc) according to what the music calls for.
In turn this will move producers back down their marginal cost curves and alter the net-of-tax price producers require.
It's heart-warming to see a number of cribs displayed in local windows to carry on a tradition stretching back down the decades.
But this day had sent my spirits and my ego crashing back down to earth, or rather water.
I see others have to back down for so much less then his unAmerican acts ...... he can't tell me that he never cheered like everyone else in that church when the tipical white was bein 'torn down by any speaker in that took charge with the mic. nannie bouroughs, Kenosha, WI Obama resigns from controversial church
She pulled herself up and was faintly aware of a soft cushiony fabric beneath her; so soft and comfortable that Tri was tempted to lay back down and let sleep take over her mind.
The ship slowly began its rotation to meet the triangle as the man turned and retreated back down the ramp.
Even if I ran out of gas, I'd simply coast back down to Harbourville, where I know I'd be well taken care of.
Neither of them will back down on this issue.
We retreated back down the mountain.
He grabbed Leila's reins and brought her front legs back down to the cobble stoned street.
I wish you well in weathering this storm and can only hope that things will quiet back down after tomorrow. EMERGENCY!!! Suspend the Debates!
Darryl hummed inscrutably and looked back down at the tent peg he was trying to hammer into the ground.
‘Gianni, this is my friend Danny, Danny this is Gianni.’ ‘Hey,’ Gianni said and sat back down next to Emily.
Under my skin my veins pule so hard, so much blood forced through them all at once, I wait to see them move, widen then shrink back down to thin strings of lilacs or purple tulips.
That kind of oversupply, he figures, could push prices back down to $ 18 a barrel or so.
The air, thus refreshed, rises to the top of the nest and then circulates back down other passageways.
So we fly back down to Guadalcanal to take command of the task force.
For the rest of the month Mercury sinks back down to the horizon while fading rapidly, and is out of sight well before the end of April.
I took a sip of wine, and gently placed the glass back down onto the table.
It's too late to back down now.
‘Oh hush up,’ she said and rolled the sleeves back down, put the jacket back on and zipped it up.
But a moment's further consideration convinced him that it could not be so: he _could_ move his body a little, although when he tried to sit up, something stopped him, pulled his spine straight, pulled his arms and shoulders back down from where he'd raised them. Asimov's Science Fiction
Instead, his look of irritation and slight anger remained, making her quickly look back down to the paper.
I looked up as he came closer, but Andreus coiled up the lash into a plaited leather loop and hit me across the back of the neck with it, forcing my eyes back down.
He grunted, stood, shucked his pack and rifle, started back down the slope.
He enjoyed the atmosphere and, despite the distance, is interested in bringing his owls, hawks and falcons back down next year.
Says he's going back down to 147 so he can once again dominate his opponents. USATODAY.com
But he pulled her hand back down and dragged her away. The Sun
But he hopes Neal won't be a "serial monogamist" and will "put it out there, sow his oats a little bit before he settles back down. Inside White Collar's White Hot Flashback
She has taken hold of my arm, is hurrying me back down the hall.
I still feel woozy, but this is the first morning since Friday that my first instinct upon getting up wasn't to go lie back down.
Slowly realization dawned onto him and he suddenly wrapped his own arms around her waist, a single finger tracing her spine upwards and then back downward again.
Putting the glass back down on the table, he let his gaze settle on Ali as she leant back in her chair, closing her eyes and shuddering slightly as the burning sensation spread throughout her body.
It's too late to back down now.
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The ordeal of the last two hours had been stupefying, but now he gathered his wits and followed the other vehicle gratefully as it led the way back down the narrow road to a fork, where it turned onto an upbound trail. The Cat Who Moved A Mountain
pulled pair of pantses drying on chair back downs by dangly ties, den dragg-ed it between front legs like a killed antelope and pulled it behine couch to “kill” eet. Huntin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
She was still conscious and crawled back down the track. Times, Sunday Times
She went upstairs to change, she came back down wearing her black tankini, shorts and her sunglasses.
It's like a game of chicken - car racing toward car, head-on - who would back down?
The leadership would not back down over upfront tax cuts, he said. Times, Sunday Times
After the game he said the players ‘were cock-a-hoop but soon brought back down to earth again by what's going to happen’.
He yanks me back by my hair and slams me back down face-first into the pebbledash rooftop. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum
After turning off the lamp in the attic, she headed back downstairs and into the dark hallways of the school.
Bring the arm back down to the side then effleurage the whole area from hand to shoulder four or five times. How to Do Arm and Hand Massage?
We would certainly hate to see him back down and start soft-pedalling, social media-wise, just because the manager got upset. Times, Sunday Times
Gently slide your hands up the back of the skull as you allow his or head to come back down gently.
We are not going to blink or back down on this. Times, Sunday Times
Gently slide your hands up the back of the skull as you allow his or head to come back down gently.
The only thing that allowed them to keep from sinking completely into the depths of misery was the thought of going back down to the earth.
He sank back down into his chair and took another puff of his cigar.
Plus once you're at the Guvernment, there is not much else around there so you have to cab it back downtown.
She sat back down on her bed with the guitar in her lap, she positioned it and put her fingers on the frets and began to play one of the songs Erica had taught her.
This horse would have no problem dropping back down to a mile or 10 furlongs. Times, Sunday Times
These fascists and hirelings are not rising up, they are stamping back down.
The Screening God is one of the most important Gods as he is blessed with the power to see who is worthy of becoming a god, an angel, or thrown back down to earth.
Quickly, he crossed himself, and knocked on the wooden bed frame as he sat back down on it.
Gently blow on it for a second, bring the cup up to your lips, drink and then put it back down.
A string quartet played as they walked back down the aisle and the sun shone as guests played croquet on the lawn at the drinks reception. Times, Sunday Times
She sank back down to her chair, eyes wide, unseeing, lost in some fantasy of her own mind. Darkness Becomes Her
In the NBA today, one team scores, everyone runs back downcourt, and they don't turn around until they get to the top of the key.
And when we walked back down the corridor I noticed he was shuffling along, really like a defeated soldier on retreat.
It fell back down to the ground and immediately began to right itself again.

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