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 During the nighttime partying, older revelers mostly hung back. María Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Finke again tried his signature move — hanging back before blitzing past the leaders in a mad dash to the final wall. Rick Maese, Washington Post, 31 July 2024 But many of those demonstrators have since hung back, owing to political exhaustion. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 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 4 Apr. 2025.

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