How to Use backslide in a Sentence

backslide

verb

• Smokers who quit often backslide within a year.
• McAvoy, backsliding to cut off the middle, lost his grip on the ice and knocked Swayman out of the way of the puck.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2023
• Some have also been on hand as the program has backslid since.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 1 Feb. 2018
• The temptation to backslide can be strong — and must be guarded against.
  — Pratap Khedkar, STAT, 28 July 2022
• Woods sent himself backsliding in the first five holes of his second round.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• In each of the last three years, the population would have to exceed the average to ensure the species doesn’t backslide.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• Over the next few years, Fishback would sometimes seem to improve, only to backslide.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• But there's no reason to expect them to backslide out of the playoffs entirely.
  — Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017
• Change is never easy, but legacy Fitbit users have been through enough this year, and Google can’t afford to backslide here.
  — Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2023
• Change is never easy, but legacy Fitbit users have been through enough this year, and Google can’t afford to backslide here.
  — Brandon Widder, The Verge, 16 Dec. 2023
• But others have either stayed the same or, in the cases of James Johnson and Hassan Whiteside, backslid a little.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• There were fears that Texas could backslide, particularly as new variants of the virus emerge.
  — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2021
• When Grant’s second term ended in March of 1877, the progress towards racial equality had begun to backslide.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• In the past, Beijing has initially carried out each round of sanctions, only to backslide.
  — Author: Carol Morello, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Aug. 2017
• The Giants nearly became the first team to backslide from baseball’s best record at the All-Star break to missing the postseason entirely.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• Fee reform 'might backslide' The aftermath of the 2008 recession looms large for those worried about the escalation of fines and fees.
  — Eli Hager, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2020
• Some set goals for a distant future, punting here, backsliding there.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 25 Jan. 2020
• Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats.
  — Jane Coaston, Vox, 12 Oct. 2018
• But 12 years at the top is plenty for any U.S. Soccer president, and the trends on the field have been backsliding dramatically.
  — Grant Wahl, SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Poland, a country whose government was (at the time) backsliding on democracy and the rule of law, but was staunchly anti-Russian, was not.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 20 May 2024
• The economic recovery is stalling and starting to backslide.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• There is no reason to believe VW will backslide on its EV strategy just because that the man most identified with the strategy has been sacked.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 25 July 2022
• The continued spread of the coronavirus is raising worries that the economy could backslide again and snuff out the budding improvements it's shown.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, Star Tribune, 3 Aug. 2020
• Supporters of afterschool have a huge amount of work to do to convince Congress not to backslide on afterschool funding.
  — Miguel Garcia, Jr., Jodi Grant and Terri King, star-telegram, 6 Mar. 2018
• The accumulation of these stories has an effect even if progress is too slow and backsliding is inevitable.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• Kyrgios playing light-out at a smaller event, only to backslide the next event (see: Acapulco + Indian Wells).
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Yet that decision surely shaped the woman who has gone on to butt heads with a stubborn, backsliding, even biased industry.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Patridge and Cabrera aren’t the only celebrities who are backsliding their way into summer.
  — Allie Jones, The Cut, 1 May 2018
• At the same time, some governments in Europe are backsliding on commitments already made.
  — Barry Hatton and Helena Alves, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• In the few years prior, there was a spike in firms pledging to make diversity a top priority following certain events, but these numbers didn’t hold and continue to backslide.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 3 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024