Example sentences for: backpedaling

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

  • With Donald Trump preening and Jesse Ventura backpedaling, the Reform Party is enjoying its widest media exposure since Ross Perot's '92 run.

  • Dobson's partner Gary Bauer took to the Sunday talking-head circuit, bad-mouthing Reed for backpedaling on abortion.

  • The Washington Post goes with Labor Secretary Alexis Herman's backpedaling on an Occupational Safety and Health Administration directive making employers responsible for safety and health violations in employees' home offices.

  • But a softer Dick Armey is a tall order, and it's resulted in more verbal gaffes and more unseemly backpedaling.

  • Journalists who admit to judging Bush's answers generally accuse him of "shifting," "backpedaling," "altering," and "reversing."


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