Pull Back Synonyms

Stretch back a bowstring (on an archer's bow)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. draw
  2. retract
  3. draw back

Words Related to Pull Back

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. pull
  2. downward
  3. upward
  4. overshoot
  5. push on
  6. drop-back
  7. through-ball
  8. left-foot

Pull Back Sentence Examples

  • Our goals are to push forward, not pull back.

  • Rabbits often pull back from society and stray away from leadership roles.

  • This retractor-muscle, indeed, serves to pull back with great rapidity the extruded proboscis, and is aided in its action by the musculature of the head.

  • This false perception of descent may cause the pilot to pull back on the stick, which would reduce airspeed.

  • Toward the end of my travels I felt a pull back toward science and to my childhood fascination with space.

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