backslide

How To Use backslide In A Sentence

• And so we have shattered expectations, disgust at backsliding, abhorrence at the betrayal of the values we hold dear, and a hefty dose of fear - because if the US can backslide, how safe are the rest of us?
• Henry has been called a backslider because of the lenity of his counsels, but I cannot but think it is the Spirit of Christ that influences him. The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
• I think that the fact they get a grand jury in there, they memorialize the people's testimony so that they can't backslide, they can't say, no, I didn't say that, they can't equivocate.
• Yes, many people were still angry but it was also noticeable that the apologists and backsliders were beginning to gather force.
• In my last piece titled ‘To hell with backsliders,’ I said that, ‘All over the world regional trading blocks are either being formed or enhanced by political will.’
• He's a reformed criminal who may yet backslide.
• It is with a sense of profound ennui that one reads today the enthralling news that, "Gordon Brown hinted … that he could yet call a referendum on the new EU reform treaty if fellow European leaders 'backslide' on deals struck by Tony Blair to protect British sovereignty. The games they play
• One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen. THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS
• But then he backslides into the life, re-entering the Web porn business with a partner on a new site featuring himself and ‘other boys he helped recruit.’
• You've done a good job in the exam, I hope you won't backslide.