How to Use fallback in a Sentence

fallback

1 of 2 noun

• The fallback was that someone was required to see Myles, then check him in.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• But Reddick is a rather nice fallback for a club that has lost five defensive starters this offseason.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2017
• There are DIY punk house shows, and improv new music experiments and garage rock fallbacks.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 May 2017
• Still, persuading people to actually get in one of these vehicles with no human fallback will take some effort.
  — Mark Bergen, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• Remote centers serving poor patients without alternative health care providers have no fallback.
  — Avantika Chilkoti, New York Times, 23 June 2017
• The fallback for many people is to reuse passwords, which means that when one service gets hacked, other accounts are also vulnerable.
  — Matt O'Brien, The Seattle Times, 11 Sep. 2017
• Talks about a bipartisan fallback are based on the idea that Obamacare insurance markets have problems and would need to be fixed if the health-care bill dies.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 12 July 2017
• Their only fallback is to propose repealing Obamacare, while promising idly to replace it—to clean up the mess at some unspecified point in the future.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 30 June 2017
• If the local board deadlocked on calls for more sites where people could vote early, the fallback would be to go with the least number of sites, Cooper’s administrators have said.
  — Anne Blythe, charlotteobserver, 27 Aug. 2017
• However, his fallback — working in construction — may be more realistic.
  — Tom Hays, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
• The company has not released its business model but emphasized that the new program connects sellers with real estate agents who suggest pricing and serve as fallbacks to investor sales.
  — Mary Shanklin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 8 July 2017
• Some novelists conquer their anxieties through ritual, using familiar fallbacks to comfort and distract.
  — Joe Fassler, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2017
• There’ll be a tier that goes and then there will be some fallbacks.
  — K.c. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 24 June 2019
• Or Hodges could have found a home at any of the FCS schools that became his fallback plan.
  — Dallas News, 29 Dec. 2022
• And so, if that's the case, then what's our fallback position?
  — CBS News, 13 Aug. 2021
• Schmitt’s strong arm could be a good fallback option if his bat stalls in pro ball.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 June 2020
• But the study doesn't claim children were a fallback market for the vaccine.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 21 Aug. 2023
• As coal plants get older, the grid loses one of its steady fallbacks.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2020
• As a protein fallback, there were always warm nuts in the bar, part of a daylong panoply of food and drink.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
• And, if things don’t work out with Plan A, the Lakers fallback option is a pretty good one.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2021
• Though Lee has a very strong chance to be among the four who will compete as a team, coach Jess Graba had a fallback plan.
  — Rachel Blount, Star Tribune, 26 June 2021
• Windsor said if new revenue doesn't come through, the city's parking fund would be the fallback.
  — Alison Dirr, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 July 2019
• Doña Martha made all of her kids study for other careers, a fallback in case the music didn’t work out.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2021
• The Pac-12 schools now had no exit fee and an attractive fallback plan in case the 10 couldn’t come to an agreement.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• There are fallbacks for people who find themselves out of work.
  — Angelica Lavito, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• Hence the fallback of turning Ukraine into an 800-mile-wide DMZ between west and east.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 10 Mar. 2022
• The system-wide change is a fallback if that's not possible.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 22 May 2018
• Hoops Habit also wrote about how Cory Joseph could make sense for the Suns as a fallback option in free agency.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 27 June 2019
• The fallback position is VoIP , voice-over-internet calling.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• He was tasked with briefing arriving infantry troops and conducting reconnaissance missions to scope out fallback locations.
  — Kostiantyn Khudov, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2024

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fall back

2 of 2 verb

• Many pieces of molten rock fell back to Earth, causing huge wildfires everywhere.
  — Hans Sues, Discover Magazine, 15 Aug. 2024
• If a case lacks obvious physical signs of abuse, judges may fall back on their own notions about domestic violence, which research shows favors defendants.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 12 Aug. 2024
• Lows fall back to the low to mid-60s with very light to calm winds.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Rublev was sure the ball was going to fall back on his side of the net.
  — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2023
• Most strikes will come as the lure falls back after the hop.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• Claire warned him not to have a heart attack and fell back asleep.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• Friday-night lows fall back to the upper 20s to mid-30s.
  — Dan Stillman, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
• There needs to be something to fall back on when times get tough.
  — Dr Byron Cole, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Hamas fighters have nowhere to fall back to in the face of an attack by Israel.
  — Javed Ali, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
• And some of those guys don’t have a ton of experience to fall back on.
  — Andrew Gillis, cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
• The yield briefly breached the 5% last week, and again on Monday, before falling back down to 4.83% by the end of the trading day.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• So when the Reds lost six straight games in July, the players had a track record of success to fall back on.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 23 July 2023
• Good thing Shelton has his singing career to fall back on.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 17 Mar. 2024
• When Danny died, Tonya didn’t have any savings to fall back on.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2023
• Still, short sellers are betting that Nvidia’s stock price will fall back to earth.
  — Laura Bratton, Quartz, 7 June 2024
• Bhatia finished with a 4-over 76 to fall back to even on the tournament.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2023
• The district fell back on their diesel vehicles to get students to class that week.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Usually, the electron will quickly fall back to the ground state and emit a photon.
  — Tracy H. Schloemer, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Sep. 2023
• Mike Barber was helping his 8-year-old son fall back asleep.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2023
• Temperatures shoot for highs in a 40-to-45-degree range but may fall back in the rain.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2023
• An offensive lineman kind of gets pushed back and falls back on my leg.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 1 July 2023
• Some schools have already had to fall back to partial closures.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2022
• Under that scenario, the case would fall back into Chutkan’s hands.
  — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 June 2024
• Water falling back to the moon as well as more that seeps up through the cracks in the ice produce rusty red stains on portions of the surface.
  — TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
• If not, he’s got his accounting degree to fall back on.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Astros, though, have more muscle memory of winning on which to fall back than the Mets do.
  — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 29 June 2024
• After an initial surge, the stock has fallen back to trade at $54 apiece, close to its $51 issue price.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
• Kentucky does still have a strong receiving corps, which Stoops may fall back on.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 16 July 2023
• At the same time, lower Earth orbit is being crowded with space junk, some of which even falls back to Earth.
  — NPR, 25 June 2024
• While some will earn stone-cold cash, others will need to fall back on first-bet insurance.
  — cleveland, 1 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Sep 2024