How to Use backpedal in a Sentence

backpedal

verb

• The outfielder backpedaled a few steps to catch the fly ball.
• Hill backpedaled to the left side of the field and caught a pass from Turpin.
  — Joe Buettner, ajc, 7 Oct. 2017
• To be sure, some firms have backpedaled on plans to expand in the city.
  — Alexandre Rajbhandari, Fortune Europe, 14 May 2024
• Later the White House seemed to backpedal a bit and talk up the dollar.
  — Fortune, 10 Aug. 2019
• Springer backpedaled to draw a bead on Ryan Braun's two-out fly ball in the fifth inning.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 4 Sep. 2019
• And do not crack a smile as your sister-in-law wearily tries to backpedal.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• Back at the top of the order, Granderson aired a deep fly ball to right field forcing Hunter Pence to backpedal.
  — Seth Berkman, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2016
• Halsey, meanwhile, is in the midst of backpedaling on her own statements.
  — Chelsea Stone, Teen Vogue, 23 June 2017
• The officer backpedaled and warned us not to BBQ or set up tents on the sidewalk because that was against the law.
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 29 June 2023
• Garoppolo ended up in the open field ahead of Samuel and pushed Barr, who backpedaled and landed on the ground.
  — Matt Kawahara, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2020
• Moments later, Freese lofts a triple just beyond the reach of the backpedaling Cruz.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2016
• The two are similar in size and the ability to cover one-on-one, backpedal and turn on a dime.
  — cleveland.com, 2 May 2018
• With Lowry backpedaling and moving on defense, the contact is enough to draw the ire of the referee.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Now to backpedal on my backpedaling: a lottery ticket costs $2.
  — Jack Murtagh, Scientific American, 17 Nov. 2023
• Malzahn backpedaled those comments when asked about them Wednesday, saying they were meant to be tongue-in-cheek.
  — Tom Green, AL.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Brady, for example does at times backpedal just a tad during his drop-back.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• Johnson held her follow through and backpedaled as the ball traveled its parabola path to the rim.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 31 Mar. 2018
• Diggs had his eyes on Trubisky the entire time and simply backpedaled in the end zone, and the ball came directly to him.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• Mahinmi gathered the rebound and passed the ball to Wall, who dribbled forward and forced Payton to backpedal.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• White charged at Jackson, who attempted to give him a Heisman-like stiff-arm and backpedaled.
  — Andrew Lopez, NOLA.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Guns: The White House proposed arming teachers, while backpedaling on raising the age to buy guns.
  — Brian Ries, CNN, 12 Mar. 2018
• But of course, Williamson has backpedaled the decision already via Twitter.
  — Elly Belle, refinery29.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• However, the ink was barely dry on the law before the Supreme Court backpedaled on applying it.
  — New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
• Freeze has kept an edge, but he's backpedaled to a more defensive stance since his infamous tweet.
  — Pete Thamel, SI.com, 29 June 2016
• In some cases, it could only be done if a child backpedaled while riding uphill.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 24 Aug. 2023
• Trump is in Europe this week and has shown little willingness to backpedal on his threat to impose the tariffs.
  — Damian Paletta, Washington Post, 6 June 2019
• Dawkins backpedaled into the area where Lucas, the Blazers enforcer, was waiting.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 6 June 2017
• James backpedaled and looked toward his team’s bench with his tongue hanging out, Williamson trailing close behind.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2020
• Olympic officials backpedaled, scaling back the tower plan.
  — Jules Boykoff, Scientific American, 24 July 2024
• Brandon Miller shook his head, uttering out a few choice words to the visitor’s bench while backpedaling on defense.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024