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fall back

verb as in retreat

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Example Sentences

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.

Some contemporary police have military backgrounds to fall back on.

Fighters from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other groups did not fall back.

After each battle, though, the Union forces danced around the Confederate lines, forcing rebel troops to fall back.

Smokers, for example, who may have gone weeks without a cigarette could fall back into a habit after just one slip-up.

At last even Massna had to confess himself beaten and fall back on Santarem.

Either: we cannot give you what you ask, so fall back onto the defensive; or, go ahead, we will give you the means.

The next moment he understood what the last resource was the two men were going to fall back upon.

He may be in danger here, but there is almost certain ruin before him if he is left to fall back into his old way of life.

But after an obstinate and bloody conflict they were compelled to fall back with a loss of 1700 killed and 500 prisoners.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fall back, such as: recede, withdraw, back, draw back, give back, and recoil.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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