pull back
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.79 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
verb
To retreat.
Example Sentences
- "Her nightgown was thin, and she felt chilly as she stepped across the hall, pulling back the curtain that shielded Gabriel's room."
- "What's more, I pull back the sheets to take a quick but suspicious gander at Bunny, and she's wearing a pair of my briefs."
- "An uncircumcised man should always take special precautions when bathing to pull back the foreskin and clean carefully around the glans."
- "Typically, this meant that the teams were turning around two sets a week, with a train rolling into the depot on a Sunday for what Hinze describes as a "big strip-out". This would pull the carriages back almost to the bare bones."
- "Central African armed forces (FACA) troops were forced to pull back from the town and were planning an operation to retake it, the source said."
- "December 1 2010, Paul Fletcher, BBC News, Ipswich 1-0 West Brom Jason Scotland should have scored after Tamas advanced purposefully down the right before pulling the ball back into the path of his team-mate, who shot straight at Myhill."