fall back

Example Sentences

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Katherine looked startled, but Chip nodded and fell back to talk to the boy behind them.

From Literature

Can people fall back in love with Welsh rugby?

From BBC

“For a day or two, she’d give us the silent treatment, and then we’d all fall back into the form of a life trying to make ends meet,” he wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

But if that shock wave is too weak to eject the surrounding material, much of the star can fall back inward.

From Science Daily

As she takes off in a full sprint, I fall back and collapse into the tall grass.

From Literature