1. He's a reformed criminal who may yet backslide.

2. The philosopher, who had told me earlier he was a back-sliding Episcopalian, glanced at me apprehensively.

3. Many of the patients backslide into drug and alcohol abuse.

4. So, Christians who have backslid away from God are really doing so because they want to.

5. You've done a good job in the exam, I hope you won't backslide.

6. This may help to maintain the gains you've made and to prevent backsliding.

7. He kept away from strong drink for years, but recently I'm afraid he'begun to backslide.

8. Mr. Jack was once active in the church, but he has backslidden.

9. My diet was going well but I'm afraid I've been backsliding a bit recently.

10. Whatever their other differences, good middle-class reformers would not countenance such ideological backsliding or remain passive before fashionable aristocratic interventions.

11. It would have looked, moreover, as though the Government were backsliding, so a swift change of tack was ordained.