How to Use backtrack in a Sentence

backtrack

verb

• The hikers realized they had made a wrong turn and would have to backtrack.
• Let me backtrack for a moment and pick up our previous conversation.
• So kind of like backtrack the ball and start driving it the other way.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• Leaders in the United States and Britain have promised too much too soon, and have had to backtrack.
  — New York Times, 22 Aug. 2021
• The group backtracked the next day, but many were outraged and accused the group of antisemitism.
  — Clyde McGrady, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Many brands backtrack at the first sign of repercussions.
  — Dorothy Crenshaw, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Cole breaks through the bedroom door and tries to guide his brother out of the party, backtracking through the house.
  — Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• Since then, the Fed has backtracked to some extent and slightly modified its stance to bear some of the blame.
  — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 4 May 2023
• Weeks of protests against the reform have not convinced the government to backtrack on the effort.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• Those who find themselves at the trail closure itself can backtrack and walk straight through the campground to find the trail at the entrance.
  — oregonlive, 6 Oct. 2021
• Mazda backtracked to drums for the rear brakes; the previous ES had solid discs.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 1 June 2023
• When you’re done, backtrack to cross the suspension bridge, which leads to the last stretch of the trail: a 2.2-mile climb to the stone shelter at the summit of Cape Perpetua.
  — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2023
• The reaction caused WhatsApp to backtrack on its plans.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2021
• Soon, it was forced to backtrack and acknowledge that Johnson had in fact been informed.
  — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 6 July 2022
• But the city backtracked after facing a court challenge.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• Those who portrayed brick-and-mortar stores as a relic of retail’s past have had to backtrack in a major way.
  — Bobby Marhamat, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The layoffs were carried out so fast the company had to backtrack and ask some workers to return.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
• There are a number of reasons why the government is not likely to backtrack.
  — Pk Senyo, Quartz, 19 Nov. 2021
• Sometimes a promising path doesn’t work out, and the team has to backtrack and find a different fork off from a previous trail.
  — Tony Bradley, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Soon after the layoffs were announced, Twitter was forced to backtrack and keep some staff on payroll for longer.
  — WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
• Don’t Say Gay bill, only to backtrack and take a stronger stance against the legislation when the company’s staff and fans pushed back.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 13 Apr. 2022
• Despite the protest, Reddit refuses to backtrack on its API plan.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 16 June 2023
• A week after that, Barrymore backtracked and decided not to bring the show back during the strikes after all.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
• Valentine tried to backtrack, apologizing to a Black houseguest who was also in the room.
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Democrats in Indianapolis have been scrambling to get the agency to backtrack on its Supreme Court request.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Nov. 2022
• In mid-November, one new trustee joined the board, flipping the board majority to one that began to backtrack on the agreement.
  — Emily Donaldson, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020
• Rather than backtrack, though, Reddit's CEO doubled down.
  — Kegan Mooney, PCMAG, 18 Sep. 2023
• The dollar rallied sharply in 2022 but began to backtrack late in the year as investors bet that U.S. inflation was slowing.
  — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
• The pings allowed the company to confirm that the plane backtracked over Malaysia before the final ping somewhere over the Indian Ocean.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Mar. 2024
• With these questions in hand, then backtrack your calendar goals and milestones.
  — Monica Kang, Forbes, 23 June 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024