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Example sentences for: backed

How can you use “backed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Until last month, the Clinton administration preferred calls for action backed up by indecision.
After CIA Director George Tenet protested, Clinton backed off slightly, agreeing only to reconsider Pollard's clemency in exchange for Netanyahu's signature.
If you poll people on how they voted in 1960, 80 percent say they backed Kennedy, even though Nixon got 50 percent of the vote.
And he would certainly be backed up on that decision by a couple currently in residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's futility: Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.