Backdown is an English word with synonyms like withdrawal or retraction. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Backdown in a sentence
Backdown meaning
An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.
Synonyms of Backdown
Using Backdown
- The main meaning on this page is: An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.
- Useful related words include: withdrawal, climb-down, retraction, abjuration.
Context around Backdown
- Average sentence length in these examples: 37 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 2 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Backdown
- In this selection, "backdown" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 37 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, humiliating and gradual stand out and add context to how "backdown" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a humiliating backdown and for the backdown the inability. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "backdown" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with backdown
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir accused her of "continuing her gradual backdown from Medicare for All" and suggested that she had been inconsistent on the issue of health care. (29 words)
The Australian E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant took the billionaire's tech firm to court in a bid to force them to delete the widespread images - ultimately withdrawing the action in what really was a humiliating backdown. (38 words)
That the Tamil Nadu discom had a practical reason for the backdown – the inability of its grid to handle large parcels of intermittent wind power — is not helpful to a company that has to pay back its bank dues out of its electricity sales. (44 words)
That the Tamil Nadu discom had a practical reason for the backdown – the inability of its grid to handle large parcels of intermittent wind power — is not helpful to a company that has to pay back its bank dues out of its electricity sales. (44 words)
The Australian E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant took the billionaire's tech firm to court in a bid to force them to delete the widespread images - ultimately withdrawing the action in what really was a humiliating backdown. (38 words)
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir accused her of "continuing her gradual backdown from Medicare for All" and suggested that she had been inconsistent on the issue of health care. (29 words)
Example sentences (3)
The Australian E-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman-Grant took the billionaire's tech firm to court in a bid to force them to delete the widespread images - ultimately withdrawing the action in what really was a humiliating backdown.
Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir accused her of "continuing her gradual backdown from Medicare for All" and suggested that she had been inconsistent on the issue of health care.
That the Tamil Nadu discom had a practical reason for the backdown – the inability of its grid to handle large parcels of intermittent wind power — is not helpful to a company that has to pay back its bank dues out of its electricity sales.