fall back

Example Sentences

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Both horses reared and liked to fall back on Lloyd and Dad.

From Literature

“Brightwood, do you hear me? My god, do you hear me? I need to tell the Forty-Eighth to fall back, immediately, or men are going to die.”

From Literature

Oil prices rose initially but then fell back after news that a Pakistani tanker had transited the Strait of Hormuz.

From Barron's

Last October and November recorded four and six closes, respectively, above $20 before falling back into teenager status.

From Barron's

In his model, some of the exploded material falls back toward the magnetar and forms a tilted accretion disk.

From Science Daily