Examples of back off in a Sentence
you'd better not back off on your promise to do all the planning for the big dance
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Singer Jon Bon Jovi helped bring a woman back off the ledge of a pedestrian bridge in Nashville on Tuesday night, police said, in an incident captured on video.
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Elias Lopez, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
Physical Abuse One night, TS came at AV in a rage and put his hands on AV’s throat, choking him, then backing off.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Most artists eventually backed off from this madness, even before CDs went out of style and LPs went back in.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
The developer has backed off, scrapping plans for the warehouse and agreeing to stabilize lands that had been disturbed, manage stormwater on the site and plant trees.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
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Elias Lopez, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
Physical Abuse One night, TS came at AV in a rage and put his hands on AV’s throat, choking him, then backing off.
—Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Most artists eventually backed off from this madness, even before CDs went out of style and LPs went back in.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
The developer has backed off, scrapping plans for the warehouse and agreeing to stabilize lands that had been disturbed, manage stormwater on the site and plant trees.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
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“Back off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20off. Accessed 5 Oct. 2024.
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