Sentence examples for the backsliding from inspiring English sources
verb
To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
- He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide.
The backsliding is hardly unexpected.
For some car buyers, the big drop in price may easily offset the backsliding.
The backsliding also helps groups within Turkey that oppose closer ties with Europe.
But it is too convenient simply to blame the Pentagon for the backsliding in coverage.
But for all the backsliding, hope lies in the fact that this recourse is plainly diminishing.
The backsliding chronicled in biblical texts, for one, and the Jews' refusal to embrace Islam for another.
The reason for the backslide is not immediately obvious, something not helped by the poor availability of precise African figures.
The backslide came even after a string of bellwether companies including Apple, the drug maker Pfizer and Caterpillar, which manufactures industrial equipment, reported strong profits.
Yet once we proved to ourselves that we weren't fools to be married — that we could have as charged an erotic life with each other as we had with others before — the backslide began.
However, it was not the first time the backslide had been performed on television or on film.
A year later, Michael Jackson also performed the backslide during a performance of "Billie Jean" on the Motown 25 TV special.
