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Definition of the day : « back away »

  • verb move away backwards
Example sentences :
  • He tried to back away from her, oblivious to the fact that by his hold on her he dragged her after him.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Lip-lip essayed to back away, but White Fang struck him hard, shoulder to shoulder.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • Beauty Smith, his hands still behind him, began to back away.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • He had a shrinking will; his instinct in an emergency was to back away from things.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • "I'll do nothing of the sort," said Travail, starting to back away.
  • Extract from : « Made in Tanganyika » by Carl Richard Jacobi
  • He pointed it and started to back away to the tree behind him.
  • Extract from : « The Boy Land Boomer » by Ralph Bonehill
  • Link Merwell was also agitated, and for the instant tried to back away.
  • Extract from : « Dave Porter in the Gold Fields » by Edward Stratemeyer
  • He tried the right, and had to back away from a furniture van that had no business to be there.
  • Extract from : « The Four Million » by O. Henry
  • Then, on hands and knees, they saw him back away from the crest.
  • Extract from : « Eight Keys to Eden » by Mark Irvin Clifton
  • They stumbled all over one another in trying to back away from her.
  • Extract from : « Prudence Says So » by Ethel Hueston