How to Use fallback in a Sentence

fallback

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• The fallback was that someone was required to see Myles, then check him in.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Jain isn’t the only board member that is sounding the alarm on VTA’s lack of a fallback plan.
  — Grace Hase, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
• 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
• Griffin cannot force a free agent to sign and there are only so many fallback options that fit on the market.
  — Christopher Dodson, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Pandemic shutdowns drove some chefs to turn to what once seemed like a fallback option: the pop-up.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2021
• But the goal is to hit the ball; a hit-by-pitch is merely an acceptable fallback position.
  — Matt Martell, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• When he wasn’t hired by the Falcons or Jaguars, his fallback was to take over a Rams defense that ranked No. 1 in the league the previous season.
  — Dylan Hernández Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2022
• Perhaps after this season, Utah State won’t be just a fallback option to the Pac-12.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2021
• Oil plants are part of the fallback plan to keep the lights on for Oahu residents until those setbacks are sorted out.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2022
• But as the chip shortage wears on, even companies with fallback chip stocks will start to struggle.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 17 Feb. 2022
• The fallback option for storm victims is to look for help from charities.
  — Christopher Flavelle, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• The one fallback is that they’re designed to be adhered to the wall and hardware is required (which is not included).
  — Rebecca Norris, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2021
• With swollen breasts and a swollen belly, somehow my usual fallback of a trusty naked dress isn’t quite hitting right.
  — Tish Weinstock, Vogue, 10 July 2023
• Ashcraft has always had the fallback option of relieving, but with the additions to the rotation, his inconsistency last year and the team’s need, this could be his time to shine in the pen.
  — C. Trent Rosecrans, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
• The bottom line: If the football thing doesn't work out for Ewers, he's got a fallback career as an interior decorator.
  — Megan Stringer, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024

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fall back

2 of 2 verb

• 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
• The onus would fall back on state judges to imprison him.
  — Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
• But there’s a caveat: A child born to each Bridge man will fall back in time.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The main booster shut down and fell back to Earth about a minute later.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
• Davis punched him once; Flores fell back and hit his head.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
• 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
• As the dust falls back to the surface, the wind carries it into these swirling patterns.
  — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Pavel Zacha came the closest, hitting the short side post before Forsberg fell back on the puck.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
• Bhatia finished with a 4-over 76 to fall back to even on the tournament.
  — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 25 Feb. 2023
• The first tree fell back there and hit the tree here, which hit another tree, and so there's a domino effect.
  — David Chiu, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025
• And it still can’t quite be trusted, either, not to fall back into bad habits.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
• The district fell back on their diesel vehicles to get students to class that week.
  — Hannah Poukish, The Mercury News, 22 Feb. 2024
• Following a hot start to the season, Atlanta has fallen back down to earth and is in need of a boost.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Shiffrin generally falls back on her desire to drive her sport to new heights and inspire the next generation.
  — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Mar 2025