Sentence examples for backsliding I from inspiring English sources

With backsliding I say 'this is wrong but I am going to do it all the same'; with special pleading I say 'this would be wrong for others, but not for me'.

Was I embracing the new, or backsliding if I got my subscription?

It was a total schoolyard backslide: like, yeah, I know you are, but what am I? Sure, he deserved it, but I hadn't flipped off a stranger in years.

"We simply can't afford any backsliding," he said, adding: "Here I think I worry definitely more about the US side".

Eighteen months later, his religious beliefs had so alienated him from his bandmates that he quit Pacific Gas & Electric and returned home to Cleveland, "where I started backsliding, like a dog returning to his own vomit.

But there has also been, I think, backsliding.

Do I backslide into advice giving and judgment making now and then.

Even as I surprised myself with my adherence (minus a few lapses) to a lighter-drinking life, I worried about backsliding when it came to red meat and offal.

I Am Not Backsliding!

"I am not worried about a backslide as much as I am about how we continue the momentum going forward," he added.

For instance, it's all heartbreak and backslides as she deadpans, "I'm over you /I'm not over you".