slide back

Example Sentences

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Many economists expect to see a pullback in the official manufacturing and nonmanufacturing PMIs for April, with some projecting a slide back below the 50-level separating activity and expansion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Three bogeys in the next four holes - including a six on the easiest hole on the course, the par-five 12th - saw him slide back into the pack.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2025

“They do seem to slide back into their old habits.”

From Slate • Apr. 22, 2025

Stylistically, those two small children, their flatly painted bodies incised in two-dimensional profile, slide back thousands of years to the African continent and Egyptian art — product of an ancient slave culture.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2024

Then I floated, and instead of going on I felt myself slide back.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway