Sentence examples for things can backfire from inspiring English sources

"Things can backfire on you.

These things can backfire.

Then her co-author chimed in, "You can get too close and say too much, and the whole thing can backfire.

If you don't choose the right people to be involved, they warn, the whole thing can backfire.

Sometimes you may want to use your own name as we do at Fear group, but that is a personal thing and can backfire.

"Sometimes these things can really backfire".

"That's why we end up acting [in] ways that are counterproductive by trying to force them into treatment or confronting them and those things can actually backfire," he tells me.

Pretending that everything is all right can backfire and make things worse.

But it can backfire when people are perfectionists for things that don't require perfectionism.

"Things that have to do with the establishment trying to stack the deck, to manipulate the rules -- they can backfire," Mr. Bell said.

Now, speechifying can backfire.