How to Use back out in a Sentence

back out

verb
  • Don't think this is the time to leave your plants back out on the porch.
    Remington Miller, arkansasonline.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Plans called for Williams to float back out next week with Butch Wilmore.
    Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • For a little less work in your front leg back out of the knee bend a bit.
    Ingrid Yang Md, Outside Online, 29 May 2025
  • Bogdan saw the bear inch forward, then back out of the house and run.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Our team will be reaching back out to Mr. and Mrs. Hill.
    Brie Stimson, Fox News, 25 May 2024
  • Crews tried to enter from the front of the building, but were forced back out due to the heat and flames.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2024
  • If the city backs out of the study, the east side dam’s ownership would transfer to the city.
    R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2025
  • Spring brings the clubs and gear back out, and the obsession starts all over again.
    Red Fabbri, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake have been out and back in and back out again.
    Sam Lee, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
  • And the new Bet Back Token gives customers a chance to back out of a bad bet.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The soap ensures that gnats who enter the trap can’t fly back out.
    Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Mets backed out due to concern over a hip issue with Gomez.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Venables sent his offense back out to the field down 21-20, and the Navy defense slammed the door shut.
    Ryan Canfield, Fox News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Alexander was able to counter Slater’s high-flying abilities just for a moment and knocked him back out of the ring.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026
  • So there are a lot of necklines and backs out.
    Jean E. Palmieri, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • The fragments are rearranged and sent back out into the world as a drawing, a film.
    Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
  • Begin pulling the zip tool back out of the drain slowly.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 8 May 2026
  • Early in the film, Perry sits behind the wheel of her car, adjusts the rearview mirror and backs out of the garage.
    Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026

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