How to Use back out in a Sentence

back out

verb

• Miss Manners would have concluded by saying that backing out gives the impression you — or in this case, your friend — have no manners.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
• In the 1970s, Lynne was the King of Pop, or at least the king of hooks that popped into your head and never popped back out.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 28 Oct. 2024
• Goldberg-Polin helped to throw some of those grenades back out of the shelter before his left arm was blown off from the elbow down, according to a firsthand account from one of his friends.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
• Zoom out: The recent cancellations aren't the first times Trump has backed out of press appearances on the 2024 campaign trail.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
• Binance agreed to buy FTX in a bailout, then backed out of the deal.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
• Her damp hair was left down and brushed back out of her face.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 5 July 2023
• What are the chances that there is a path from one edge to the center of the grid and back out again?
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
• Still, the claim that the West forced Ukraine to back out of the talks with Russia is baseless.
  — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
• Our team will be reaching back out to Mr. and Mrs. Hill.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 25 May 2024
• Spring brings the clubs and gear back out, and the obsession starts all over again.
  — Red Fabbri, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
• Paddle in, take care of the bite wound and paddle back out to catch more waves.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
• Next, tuck the length of the ponytail into the hole and back out the bottom for the upside-down look.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 6 July 2023
• That is a woman who has seen it, been in it, dug her way back out.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• At the end of every shift, the commute back out of the tunnel is just a few feet longer.
  — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• And ever since the deal, the British government has tried to back out.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• Erin left me an escape hatch to back out of the story, but I was soon hooked.
  — Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Each time the man laid the items back out, the mouse had cleaned them up again by the following morning.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
• Fresh off the heels of his tour with 21 Savage, Drake is headed back out on the road next year.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 13 Nov. 2023
• That deputy arrived at 11 p.m., and the deputies then noticed the truck beginning to back out of the ditch.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 28 June 2023
• With big surf rolling in, the waves crash, and water needs to make its way back out to sea and rip currents form.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
• With the top of the order due up to start the fifth, Melvin sent the rookie right-hander back out there, anyway.
  — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
• The Rangers’ offense — which had averaged just 3.7 runs in the first six games of the home stand — broke back out in a big way.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
• Then, the following night in Detroit, Lowry was back in and Oladipo back out.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
• The boat had hit the jetty, was taking on water and was drifting back out to sea.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
• The paint is the whitest on Earth, and reflects 98 percent of sunlight back out into space.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• The next day, the buyer, who had tentatively agreed to a purchase price, backed out of the deal.
  — Naomi Cahn, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2024
• And backing out of that Yahoo deal also came with a bonus.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
• After all, builders get to keep the deposit if buyers back out.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2023
• As the teens’ car backed out onto Shepherd Lane, Gross ordered it to stop.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
• Keep the arms long and press the hands firmly into the floor while pushing your back out toward the ceiling.
  — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024