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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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.
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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
But the company’s paltry 2023 financial performance soon brought the stock back down to Earth.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
Faced with a strained medical system at the height of the Covid pandemic, the government backed down.
—Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Former View cohost and conservative media personality Meghan McCain isn't backing down on her criticism of an off-Broadway stage show, Ghost of John McCain, that uses her late father's name and long-standing feud with Donald Trump as narrative inspiration.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2024
The three of them, along with a post-oral-surgery Kong, head back down to check it out.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
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
But the company’s paltry 2023 financial performance soon brought the stock back down to Earth.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
Faced with a strained medical system at the height of the Covid pandemic, the government backed down.
—Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Former View cohost and conservative media personality Meghan McCain isn't backing down on her criticism of an off-Broadway stage show, Ghost of John McCain, that uses her late father's name and long-standing feud with Donald Trump as narrative inspiration.
—EW.com, 3 Apr. 2024
The three of them, along with a post-oral-surgery Kong, head back down to check it out.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
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“Back down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20down. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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