How to Use take a back seat in a Sentence

take a back seat

idiomatic phrase

• Football’s Xs and Os take a back seat for the first night.
  — Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
• Bond seems to have taken a back seat—for now, at least.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Aug. 2024
• Overall, the health needs of women in Bangladesh take a back seat to those of men.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• The Super Bowl was a reminder of how skill takes a back seat to the trenches.
  — Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 19 Feb. 2025
• Adams hopes to be able to take a back seat in the day-to-day programming at the retreat.
  — Essence, 11 Jan. 2024
• Male artists are taking a back seat at the 2024 Grammys.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2023
• But a lot of the orchard practices took a back seat in recent years.
  — Christine Lennon, Sunset Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
• The 1970s also marked the moment that homemade food took a back seat, says Gray.
  — Claire Turrell, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 May 2023
• My pain was in the driver’s seat, and everything else took a back seat.
  — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
• My pain was in the driver’s seat, and everything else took a back seat.
  — Erin Clack, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
• And in this race, as with the clipper ship captains, caution might take a back seat to speed.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
• Flirting is an art form that has taken a back seat due to the rise of dating apps.
  — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 20 Sep. 2024
• At what cost? Elon Musk takes a back seat as Trump reaches 100 days in office.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2025
• Website and mobile app design skills take a back seat to a new skillset.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• With the city taking a back seat, it has been left to nonprofits like Flatbush Cats to take up the slack.
  — Richard Schiffman Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 June 2023
• Even among his defenders, free speech took a back seat.
  — Russell Jacoby, Harper's Magazine, 16 Feb. 2023
• Biden appears to be taking a back seat in his final weeks.
  — Cate Martel, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024
• In some cases, growth will take a back seat to geopolitics.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
• In this instance, truth took a back seat to the FBI’s reputation.
  — Brett Forrest, Time, 7 June 2023
• Now, with some of that money clawed back, there is a question about what programs may take a back seat.
  — Fatima Hussein and Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
• LeBron James James takes a back seat to his new teammate this time around, coming in third.
  — Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
• By the early 1990’s, hair metal’s glory took a back seat to Nirvana, Pearl Jam and grunge.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
• As with the young L’Avant-Garde, the service can take a back seat to some of the singular sensations emerging from the open kitchen.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• The Joker’s exploits as a passer take a back seat to nobody who has ever played the game.
  — John Hollinger, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
• Do my dietary restrictions and concerns take a back seat when the boss is picking up the tab?
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2024
• But in a sprint toward the playoffs in the final third of the season, concerns about wearing Green down take a back seat.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2025
• The other side: OpenAI, for its part, rejects the idea that safety is taking a back seat.
  — Ina Fried, Axios, 2 Oct. 2024
• But that issue has taken a back seat to the separate fight over who can be a party to the lawsuit.
  — Travis Loller The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
• All of that suddenly took a back seat for the player affectionately known as the Polar Bear.
  — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 8 May 2025
• Instead, that extra time is spent with Stitch on the sidelines, taking a back seat to the relationship between Lilo and her big sister Nani, who was thrown into a guardian role after their parents died in an accident.
  — Barry Levitt, Time, 21 May 2025