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Examples

  • I don't think Sam Beckett ('Quantum Leap') or Frank Parker ('7 Days') would have leapt or back-stepped in order to make sure we got an eyeful of Ms. Cappelli's attributes.

    BLIPVERT BROUHAHA Toby O'B 2005

  • Obligingly, he back-stepped down to the landing and pried off his tennis shoes.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Obligingly, he back-stepped down to the landing and pried off his tennis shoes.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Obligingly, he back-stepped down to the landing and pried off his tennis shoes.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Doug returned a sharp, Star Trek jab to the face that back-stepped Jem, who in his zeal for Hollywood splashed a pair of idle, hoop-earringed girls with foam out of his High Life longneck.

    The Town Chuck Hogan 2004

  • Obligingly, he back-stepped down to the landing and pried off his tennis shoes.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Obligingly, he back-stepped down to the landing and pried off his tennis shoes.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • Obligingly, he back-stepped down to the landing and pried off his tennis shoes.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • But Aydrian was thinking far ahead as well, and he ducked and back-stepped, slapping her blade out to the side.

    Immortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2003

  • Maddie back-stepped to a chair in the seating area of the bookstore and plopped down.

    Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max Foster, Lori 2001

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