hang back

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Recent Examples of hang back Pick up a few of the travel prints and turn them into a series to frame and hang back home. Lane Nieset, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025 Devine kept Bunny on a leash, hanging back a safe distance. Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025 But many of those demonstrators have since hung back, owing to political exhaustion. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024 Hinrichs’ best memory so far was at a stop a couple of years ago when a family brought a disabled child but were hanging back from the train to avoid the tussle of the crowd. Chris Morris, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hang back

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“Hang back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hang%20back. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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