Examples of back down in a Sentence
if you back down about dinner again, I'm not going to agree to another date
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Still, hundreds of thousands of people are expected to queue up this summer to launch more than 400 feet in the air at 100-plus-mph, free-fall backward, shoot up again — and plunge, spiral-twisting headfirst back down to earth, feeling the wind in their face and a death-defying rush.
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Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
Cocoa prices are melting back down to Earth… sort of.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 2 May 2024
The protesters have been calling for universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel, and some have vowed not to back down.
—Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 1 May 2024
France and Germany have backed down on plans to end subsidies for agricultural diesel fuel.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
Though temperatures will remain hot throughout the weekend, a cooldown will bring temperatures back down to the 80s and potentially upper 70s, according to Lojero.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Forget that Season 5 finale where angels (played by Dustin Hoffman and Sacha Baron Cohen) send him back down to earth.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
Then UConn and Alabama went back and forth on the court in a tough match that saw No. 1 UConn advance to the championship game, sending the No. 4 Crimson Tide back down South.
—NBC News, 7 Apr. 2024
Inflation data for March will be issued on April 10, a metric sure to be closely watched given that the Fed wants to see the annual inflation rate drift back down to its pre-pandemic level of about 2%.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
Cocoa prices are melting back down to Earth… sort of.
—Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 2 May 2024
The protesters have been calling for universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel, and some have vowed not to back down.
—Hiba Yazbek, New York Times, 1 May 2024
France and Germany have backed down on plans to end subsidies for agricultural diesel fuel.
—Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Apr. 2024
Though temperatures will remain hot throughout the weekend, a cooldown will bring temperatures back down to the 80s and potentially upper 70s, according to Lojero.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 11 Apr. 2024
Forget that Season 5 finale where angels (played by Dustin Hoffman and Sacha Baron Cohen) send him back down to earth.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2024
Then UConn and Alabama went back and forth on the court in a tough match that saw No. 1 UConn advance to the championship game, sending the No. 4 Crimson Tide back down South.
—NBC News, 7 Apr. 2024
Inflation data for March will be issued on April 10, a metric sure to be closely watched given that the Fed wants to see the annual inflation rate drift back down to its pre-pandemic level of about 2%.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 4 Apr. 2024
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