fall back on's Usage Examples:

drought and by locusts, and as the papal treasury was empty he had to fall back on his father"s wealth to relieve the poor, to redeem captives, and to repair.

Contrary to the orders from Dupleix to fall back on Pondicherry, French troops under the Scotsman Law retreated at once to.

Cristina Valenzuela is the more fortunate, as Louise has Eiji Usatsuka"s blindingly cute design to fall back on.

Social workers have commented that Black people facing difficulties are usually able to fall back on support from extended families.

new to the country, they didn"t have a strong family support system to fall back on like other Israelis do.

An attack by 1,500 Boers caused a significant portion of the yeomanry to break and fall back on the infantry, causing confusion and casualties, before a counter-attack by the infantry and one company of yeomanry forced the Boers to retire.

resistance and the first salvo from Canopus"s guns at 09:20 caused them to sheer off from their planned bombardment of the wireless station and fall back on.

parents insisted he go to college first so he would have something to fall back on.

had by then arrived with the reserve, but Berthier"s troops began to fall back on the main vine belts.

In fact, the Spanish troops had received orders to fall back on Santiago.

severing the television operation from Paramount had given them little to fall back on when films fail, except for studio stage rentals.

When Wynn flubbed a line or was uncertain of how to proceed, he would fall back on his old.

He did not get such a sale, and had to fall back on Weird Tales.

Synonyms:

saddle, body, trunk, latissimus dorsi, dorsum, thoracic vertebra, lumbar vertebra, small, torso, body part, dorsal vertebra, lat,

Antonyms:

hardness, thinness, large, big, unlimited,