Below you will find example sentences with "backed away". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Backed Away in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: backed
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.8 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "backed away" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.8 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as as he backed away, as he backed away from the, cesaro, alexander and tramp stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with walked away, drove away and further away, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with backed away
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Perry backed away to retreat. (5 words)
And exchange Bitget backed away from theirs. (7 words)
When knives were brought out, I backed away. (8 words)
His defection to the LIV series, and all the incendiary comments he made in the process, had torched his reputation as he backed away from the PGA Tour with all the grace of a man reversing a forklift truck into a pallet of Ming vases. (45 words)
A Greens councillor wants the City of Sydney to spend at least a quarter of the $817.5 million it has in the bank to purchase property after the council backed away from its affordable housing targets, calling them “aspirational”. (40 words)
McGuire previously backed away from proposals that would create the tax credits, streamline local and state permitting and grant “by right” approval to developers building in areas already zoned for them, eliminating the need for local approvals. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Cesaro backed Alexander up against the ropes, and when the ref called for a break, Cesaro slowly backed away before landing a closed fist blow to Alexander’s sternum.
While Tramp's early clientele have passed away piecemeal, or otherwise backed away from their hedonistic days, Tramp continues to pull in a decent crowd of celebrities.
A Greens councillor wants the City of Sydney to spend at least a quarter of the $817.5 million it has in the bank to purchase property after the council backed away from its affordable housing targets, calling them “aspirational”.
And exchange Bitget backed away from theirs.
Brad Pitt recently backed away from the Joseph Kosinski-directed feature Apex, on which he stopped working earlier this week.
But after learning in the summer that state government owed taxpayers nearly $3 billion in rebates under a decades-old law, House and Senate Democrats put their proposal on ice and then ultimately backed away entirely.
Egypt suggested Hamas swap the women and children it holds for female Palestinian prisoners, but when Hamas did not embrace the proposal, the Egyptian government reportedly backed away.
He promised to raise taxes, though he backed away from past pledges to defund police.
His defection to the LIV series, and all the incendiary comments he made in the process, had torched his reputation as he backed away from the PGA Tour with all the grace of a man reversing a forklift truck into a pallet of Ming vases.
In the last few days, two of the companies that made the most grandiose promises, BP and Shell, have backed away from their pledges about investments in renewable sources such as solar and wind.
Perry backed away to retreat.
Theresa May and Boris Johnson made various suggestions but quickly backed away from them.
When knives were brought out, I backed away.
AMD funded it for a while, but recently backed away.
Being armed at the time, the man said he feared Obama’s security detail would consider him a threat, and so quickly backed away and greeted the two men in the alleyway.
For over a year until he announced his position this spring, Trump had backed away from endorsing any specific national limit on abortion, unlike many other Republicans who eventually ended their presidential campaigns.
He stopped publishing and backed away from fame and publicity, though he didn’t hide his whereabouts.
In the top of the 11th inning, New York Mets reliever Michael Tonkin threw a pitch up and in to Tigers slugger Spencer Torkelson, who clearly checked his swing as he backed away.
It was negotiated after Senate Republicans backed away from supporting the bipartisan foreign aid bill, which tied foreign aid to border security and immigration reform.
McGuire previously backed away from proposals that would create the tax credits, streamline local and state permitting and grant “by right” approval to developers building in areas already zoned for them, eliminating the need for local approvals.