Fell-back-on Definition

Fell-back-on Sentence Examples

• The French fell back on Burgos.

• Some thinkers fell back on the "modalistic" solution which regards "Father" and "Son" as two aspects of the same subject; but a simpler and more popular method was the "adoptianist" or humanitarian.

• The church fell back on carnal weapons in her warfare and invoked the secular powers to uphold the ecclesiastical.

• That officer desired to concentrate his command on Gordonsville, but Jackson was before him at that place, and he fell back on Culpeper.

• Frfendlies, and he fell back on Handub.