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move out of a space backwards
He backed out of the driveway -
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 out In A Sentence
- When I stepped back outside, the snow was continuing.
- The government decision to back out has also been met with widespread criticism by civic chiefs.
- It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times
- The gaffer made me captain at the start of the season and I want to be back out there helping the lads get back up the league.
- ‘Now all we have to do is find out way back out to the motorway again,’ Graham said, just a little glumly.
- Then the engine started and I saw him back out of the driveway and squeal off down the road.
- After about half a hour, he came back out of the house and then he used the lawnmower to mow the lawn.
- Will waited for another lull in the activity outside the office before going back out.
- I gave him another shot of cough syrup and a pat on the fanny and sent him back out onto the Play-Doh-covered field.
- Now, on this hot August evening, he disappeared inside his shop and came back out with a freshly glassed and sanded shortboard. Kook