How to Use walk it in a Sentence

walk it

idiom

• When do the Padres plan to walk it, rather than talk it?
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2021
• Hartselle can walk it off with a run in the bottom half.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 19 May 2021
• Wash it down with a Heineken or Carlsberg, then walk it off.
  — Claire Stern, ELLE, 17 Mar. 2023
• Last week against the Twins, with one out, runners on second and third, and a tie game in the ninth, Verdugo had a chance to walk it off by putting the ball in play.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021
• The first person to walk it was a singer/songwriter, James Ian, dressed in a flashy suit with a howling wolf embroidered in beadwork on the back.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 21 Sep. 2022
• The entire Heat bench then walked to his side during that timeout, with Butler eventually rising and trying to walk it off.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2023
• The premiere’s red carpet even got bumped up an hour early so that cast members could walk it and promote the film without interfering with a potential strike.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 July 2023
• Bradish attempted to walk it off as Hyde and head athletic trainer Brian Ebel visited the mound, but he was quickly pulled after throwing one warmup pitch and limped off the field.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2023
• The arrangement allows the researchers to remove the brain and walk it quickly to their lab a block away, after which the family can proceed with a funeral or cremation.
  — Jennie Erin Smith, Star Tribune, 20 Dec. 2020
• In short: fact-checking is not enough—especially if Facebook is just going to walk it back whenever someone complains.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 16 Sep. 2020
• Curry, who got entangled with Boston’s Marcus Smart, initially tried to walk it off during a timeout but eventually went back to the locker room.
  — C.j. Holmes, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024