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How to use backslide in a sentence

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Only hope I don't backslide when I go to Grenada next weekend for a month or so.
The punk movement fizzled with the backslide into further genre Balkanization, but that doesn't mean the desire for confrontation has subsided.
Some days I would backslide, and I'd still have anger, and I would just read the list.
It is only natural for such a people to backslide back to nepotism and dictatorship when the reigns are handed over.
Whenever I read this Psalm of David, which is quite often, it reminds me what it would be like to backslide, and I pray that that never happens.
If He does answer them, they will just stay where they are, or their faith will backslide.
A backslide into violence would mar what has otherwise been a very successful process.
All in all, we will show that, while present, the risks of a backslide are limited for the time being.
But some people slow down or even backslide in their spiritual growth as they become leaders.
The first is that the West does not backslide over paying for the Afghan army and police.
Thus, while focusing on mitigating the impact of the crisis, it is important that African countries do not backslide in their reform programs.
We must not backslide on this position, because otherwise we run the risk of wasting our efforts and losing the initiative completely.
But what about the formerly middle-class African Americans who find themselves on the backslide?
If they put it off, they backslide and are into the same cycle again.
Member countries tempted to backslide into protecting their domestic industries must be kept up to the mark if all EU businesses are to continue to be treated equally.
When they wait, they backslide and the determination sometimes fails.
In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and subsequent anti-terrorism measures, the international community seemed to backslide on its commitment to the rule of law and human rights.
Third, there is the large risk of a backslide in economic growth.
The basic problem has always been the overwhelming temptation for individuals to backslide on agreements: co-operation never seems worthwhile until it is too late.
He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.
Let me mention some of the stone walls that men permit to be broken down when they backslide.
Jim West thought things looked scaly, but he warn't agoin' to backslide arter he'd got so fur.
When a savage from the Solomons does backslide, he is usually the most cannibalistic of his tribe.
Having slept in a duchess's bed, Kedzie would not backslide.
Did not I, even I, in thy presence, backslide into intemperance and folly?
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