How to Use back out in a Sentence

back out

verb
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  • The boat had hit the jetty, was taking on water and was drifting back out to sea.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Flashback: Price cuts surged nationwide in 2022, partly because mortgage rates caused home shoppers to back out of the market.
    — John Frank, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Binance agreed to buy FTX in a bailout, then backed out of the deal.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Her damp hair was left down and brushed back out of her face.
    — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 5 July 2023
  • What are the chances that there is a path from one edge to the center of the grid and back out again?
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Still, the claim that the West forced Ukraine to back out of the talks with Russia is baseless.
    — Samuel Charap, Foreign Affairs, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Our team will be reaching back out to Mr. and Mrs. Hill.
    — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 25 May 2024
  • Spring brings the clubs and gear back out, and the obsession starts all over again.
    — Red Fabbri, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Paddle in, take care of the bite wound and paddle back out to catch more waves.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Next, tuck the length of the ponytail into the hole and back out the bottom for the upside-down look.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 6 July 2023
  • That is a woman who has seen it, been in it, dug her way back out.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • At the end of every shift, the commute back out of the tunnel is just a few feet longer.
    — Ricky Carioti, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
  • And ever since the deal, the British government has tried to back out.
    — Max Colchester, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Erin left me an escape hatch to back out of the story, but I was soon hooked.
    — Amanda Holpuch, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • Each time the man laid the items back out, the mouse had cleaned them up again by the following morning.
    — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Fresh off the heels of his tour with 21 Savage, Drake is headed back out on the road next year.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 13 Nov. 2023
  • That deputy arrived at 11 p.m., and the deputies then noticed the truck beginning to back out of the ditch.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 28 June 2023
  • With big surf rolling in, the waves crash, and water needs to make its way back out to sea and rip currents form.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • With the top of the order due up to start the fifth, Melvin sent the rookie right-hander back out there, anyway.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • The Rangers’ offense — which had averaged just 3.7 runs in the first six games of the home stand — broke back out in a big way.
    — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 18 June 2023
  • Then, the following night in Detroit, Lowry was back in and Oladipo back out.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The paint is the whitest on Earth, and reflects 98 percent of sunlight back out into space.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
  • And backing out of that Yahoo deal also came with a bonus.
    — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2023
  • After all, builders get to keep the deposit if buyers back out.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • As the teens’ car backed out onto Shepherd Lane, Gross ordered it to stop.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Keep the arms long and press the hands firmly into the floor while pushing your back out toward the ceiling.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • But Burke overrode the order and sent the ship back out into open waters.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2024
  • In most models, a fan sucks up air from the room, heats it with a metal coil, then expels it back out.
    — Hannah Holland, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But that won’t stop Fjeld and his friends from heading back out in search of their next discovery.
    — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • With this news, Karate will head back out on the road to perform music from their new album and old LPs alike.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 25 July 2024

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