Meaning of pull back | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, back.
2. To retreat.
3. To pass (the ball) into a position further from the attacking goal line.
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4. To score when the team is losing.
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Examples

“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.”

“Feb 19 2007, Al-Jazeera, Stylish Sevilla pull⟳ level with faltering Barcelona Ronaldinho pulled back a goal for Barca in injury time with a classy free-kick, but it was clearly too little too late to prevent⟳ their third Liga defeat⟳.”

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