Example Sentences

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There is confrontation and denial, improvements followed by backslides.

From Salon • Jun. 14, 2025

Now after nearly two decades of reforms, backslides into scandals, and close watch from activists and the feds, Oakland can enter a probationary period.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2022

Those profits are made on paper not set in stone, but that doesn’t reduce the sense of loss as a portfolio backslides.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2022

The process could take five weeks, without any backslides, and is likely to keep him off the Angels’ opening-day roster.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2019

I know he backslides a bit later, but he comes out all right in the end.

From Sermons on Biblical Characters by Chappell, Clovis G.