Sentence examples for they hang back from inspiring English sources

Affecting diffidence, they hang back and don't look my way.

Even as they burst onto the scene as fully-formed guitar gods, they hang back from heavy self-promotion.

But critics claim most have done so reluctantly, believing the White Paper is a "done deal" and that they risk missing out if they hang back.

Martin's choruses rarely feel overwrought or lyrically complex — they hang back at first, before leaping up the scale, high enough to excite but not so melodramatic that they invoke opera or hair metal.

If you call self-indulgent yuppies to the barricades, will they follow, or will they hang back, sipping their Claret Bordeaux Wine Casked Islay Single Malt (aged 12 years), talking on their 70-mile-range cordless phones, lounging in their Hammacher Schlemmer hammocks, making reservations at spa.com?

Sometimes they hang back, as if they're conscious of the explosive potential of the sort of atrocities that accompanied their last attempt to take the square.

I wondered if the bikers would attempt to overtake, but I was pleased when they hung back.

They hung back from leaving Vietnam until the 1972 elections were behind them.

It was fascinating to watch as they hung back and then crept closer, one even bravely resting his hand on hers.

The entire 52-acre garden was their territory, but they hung back by the sun-drenched lily pond terrace on a recent Sunday afternoon, murmuring to each other about the glory of the red-purple petunias and fragile white impatiens.

They hung back until some of the "fog" cleared.