back out

Example Sentences

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Despite this, Harris couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong, so she tried to back out of the lease.

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Max flipped it back out to me as Sadie was finishing with the last of her customers and the people coming in for the midnight movies began to snag their seats.

From Literature

“This was her idea, wasn’t it? Never mind that you’re backing out on your promise to me and Jonah.”

From Literature

His promoter, Frank Warren, said the Chatham heavyweight will be back out in July.

From BBC

The jury instead found that certain of his public claims of problems in Twitter's user metrics, and that he was possibly backing out of the $44bn acquisition deal, were intentionally misleading.

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