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stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
The archers were drawing their bows -
pull back or move away or backward
The enemy withdrew
The limo pulled away from the curb -
make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
He backed out of his earlier promise
The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns
We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him - use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
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move to a rearward position; pull towards the back
Pull back your arms!
How To Use pull back In A Sentence
- Will they be used as an excuse to pull back from the ultimate goal, zero-emission engines?
- But now he says he is willing to co-partner with Parcells on personnel choices - or pull back even more.
- But where O'Connor subjects her characters' actions to a rigorous moral investigation, Means tends either to pull back to a remote, bird's-eye view a favourite trope is to lay out a sort of mini-encyclopedia of possible interpretations of the event in question, as offered by professors, news commentators, and so on or, more commonly, to aestheticise it. The Spot by David Means – review
- He taught me how to feint and pull back and right-hand counter-punch.
- His throat was burning, and the movement had caused him to pull back, away from Brackett, which sent a searing pain down both arms.
- They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
- They will plead with him to pull back from confrontation.
- Then, I pull back again, formulating what I'm going to say.
- They are preparing to pull back their forces.
- In those days, I could pull back the blackout curtains in the morning and tell instantly whether I was going to have a good or a bad day.
