How to Use fall behind in a Sentence

fall behind

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• But by not focusing on growth, Chicago has been falling behind.
  — Jack Lavin, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• When competitors are making moves, standing still can feel like falling behind.
  — Mike Biwer, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Yet falling behind on payments could result in a vicious cycle of debt, experts say.
  — Stephanie Dhue,sharon Epperson, CNBC, 14 July 2026
• These days, cryotherapy and cupping are high on his list of favorites, while cold plunges have notably fallen behind.
  — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 July 2026
• Is the American Dream still about getting ahead, or just about not falling behind?
  — Diane Brady, Fortune, 23 July 2026
• Colombia fell behind after two rounds of the shootout but tied it, only to miss on the fourth attempt, and that proved decisive.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
• This approach can cause companies to fall behind their competitors.
  — Muhammad Muzammil Rawjani, Forbes.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• The Padres fell behind early and stranded runners throughout.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026
• Despite fears before kick-off that this game would be a no-contest, Algeria fell behind twice and fought back to equalise.
  — Eduardo Tansley, New York Times, 28 June 2026
• If their knowledge stays in meetings or Slack threads, the rest of the organization falls behind.
  — Panos Siozos, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
• That France have not fallen behind once at this World Cup is a testament to their brilliance.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 9 July 2026
• In recent polls, Rodriguez had fallen behind Barnes and Hong by a wide margin.
  — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 17 July 2026
• After falling behind, the Argentines made a furious push to tie the game.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026
• In other words, even if real wages had kept up with productivity, workers would have still fallen behind.
  — Peter Georgescu, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
• Raleigh fell behind 0-2 in the count but worked a nine-pitch walk that scored Crawford and chased Ureña (5-7).
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026
• After getting broken to fall behind 2-4 in the third, Djokovic attempted to knock a ball back to the ball boy, who was crouched beside the umpire’s chair.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 5 July 2026
• Companies that don’t experiment and implement will fall behind.
  — Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• Muncy fell behind 0-2 and with a 2-2 count on the seventh pitch drove a hanging slider into the right-field second deck for his 18th home run.
  — ABC News, 17 July 2026
• For the first time, the 2026 Home Run Derby falls behind Netflix’s paywall.
  — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 July 2026
• Trevino fell behind 0-2 before working the count full and hitting his first homer since June 8, 2025.
  — ABC News, 2 July 2026
• When a project falls behind schedule, the electrical team points at the cooling contractors, and the cooling technicians blame the structural engineers.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 June 2026
• Developers who focus only on today's building standards risk falling behind.
  — James Nelson, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
• Competitive pressure will lead companies to either take up productivity tools or fall behind.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• Amid these financial troubles, the company fell behind on certain state sales taxes, the declaration said, leading to tax levies that restricted cash flow.
  — Chiara Kim, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026
• If this trend continues or accelerates when Mythos-level models come to market, defenders could easily fall behind.
  — Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
• With Meta’s models falling behind, becoming a cloud provider keeps it relevant in AI and buys it time to develop its own technology.
  — Rachyl Jones, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
• The Royals fell behind early in Saturday night’s game at Baltimore and lost 6-1 to the Orioles.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
• The billionaire Wall Street leader said that employers who stick behind remote schedules are falling behind—and young workers in particular could be left in the dust.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 30 June 2026
• Children born to mothers with untreated depression and anxiety have a higher risk of falling behind on early developmental milestones.
  — Camille Hoffman, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
• Yet the pair had a falling out when Musk reportedly decided OpenAI was falling behind in the AI race.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 July 2026