Example sentences for: backtracked

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

  • An "unnamed official" tells the Post that the administration has since backtracked on its initial assertions that a toxic substance was manufactured at the plant and that its owner was a terrorist.

  • The Post and Journal report that Labor Secretary Alexis Herman backtracked from an Occupational Safety and Health Administration notice requiring employers to provide proper furniture, lighting, heating, and ventilation systems to employees working at home.

  • Gary Bauer, Steve Forbes, and some Hill Republicans accused Bush of abandoning the GOP rank and file, and Bush backtracked slightly, stressing that the GOP's image as heartless was a Democratic caricature, not reality.


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