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How to use back away in a sentence

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But she watched her mother blink in surprise and take an involuntary step back away from her.
The horse was braying, frightened, as it tried to back away from several men fighting.
Tie-backs are a decorative effect using a cord, chain, rope or cloth to secure the draperies back away from the window.
The old Irish priest crossed himself and slunk back away from the computer.
He wasn't a man to back away from a scrap when he was a player, and he said he wouldn't this time.
Holding its pale back away from the sunlight makes the backswimmer harder for predators to spot.
He had only time to back away before the thick wooden doors swung open, hinges protesting loudly.
When the cue hits the object ball it will bend the tangent line back away from the corner.
She hopped back away from it, windmilling her arms once to catch her balance.
If a group leader's philosophy and beliefs are narrow and one-sided, then back away.
She puts slack on the rope and tells the stupid man just to back away slowly.
While the industry works on this issue, Canadian growers are seeing prices drop and buyers back away from the market.
Solid public breeding initiates a wave of private investment that allows the public sector to back away.
Nick motions for Anna to back away and he turns the television up.
Morrow will not fit into these diagrams since, with Coleridge, he prizes the esemplastic power that unites everything into one, and does not back away from it in any of his doings.
Miller shook his head unbelievingly several times and then, reluctantly, started to back away.
Only the amassment of American troops in large numbers encouraged him to back away from that.
It delivers the sense of confidence required to assume risk comfortably as well as the inner sense that it may be time to just back away.
What possibly could be driving the government to, if anything, back away from safety as priority number one.
If the caribou smells us, or smells fire, it will back away from the direction of the wind, of the smell.
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Examples from Classical Literature
All that Mallory could do was to admit that he was a flea-bitten what-he-said, and back away.
He tried to back away from her, oblivious to the fact that by his hold on her he dragged her after him.
We went winding in and out amongst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some other way.
He tried the right, and had to back away from a furniture van that had no business to be there.
Quickly he crouched back away from the entrance, at the same time turning his eyes toward me.
Captain Hagberd jerked himself free, and began to back away shrinkingly.
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