fall back
Example Sentences
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"When panicked, people fall back on their instinctive responses, and don't read small print in a dark and possibly smoke-filled cabin."
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
That leaves you with enough money, roughly, to 90, and then you’d have only your guaranteed income to fall back on.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Originally part of a 2025 mission to launch a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies, the rocket was supposed to fall back to Earth.
From Salon ● Aug. 6, 2026
Even as investors saw little Fed tightening, they also expected inflation to soon fall back to the Fed’s 2% target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Ashish let his head fall back over the back of the chair.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
