Examples of 'take a backseat' in a sentence

Meaning of "take a backseat"

take a backseat: to assume a secondary or less important role or position ~ Used in scenarios where someone is stepping back or yielding the spotlight to others

How to use "take a backseat" in a sentence

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I am just gonna take a backseat to the wedding.
It will force the elections to take a backseat.
But dreams take a backseat to just plain health.
Learn to let your desires take a backseat.
He needs to take a backseat for a while.
Sometimes your personal life has to take a backseat.
The system can take a backseat for a minute.
You can not expect me to just take a backseat.
If we are gonna take a backseat to everything new.
I am going to have to ask for special permission to take a backseat.
Take a backseat to your emotion.
The military had to take a backseat.
You will not take a backseat to that weather girl.
Some women prefer a man who can take a backseat.
My operation will not take a backseat to your personal vendetta.

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Every green initiative that we care about is gonna take a backseat.
Sometimes politics has to take a backseat to doing the right thing.
My pride and my general dislike for my father can take a backseat.
It was forced to take a backseat to rejection.
The irony of stress is that your healthy habits can take a backseat.
I will not take a backseat.
We take a backseat to no one.
The rest have to take a backseat.
Those bodies take a backseat to those of our departed colleague and his wife.
Even integrity can take a backseat.
I will take a backseat to no one in finding Trump unfit to serve as president.
I need you to take a backseat.
Going on a vacation with family does not necessarily mean that learning should take a backseat.
You should learn to take a backseat now and then.
I knew that he and I would clash because he would not be content to take a backseat.
Do not let your marriage take a backseat to your kids.
If a firm pursues growth or size, profitability will take a backseat.
Wound healing will also take a backseat in prediabetes patients.
For parents, that means learning to take a backseat.
Luke will want to take a backseat when it comes to politics.
Physical prowess and conventional warfare had to take a backseat this time.
Cruise take a backseat.
What I wanted always seemed to take a backseat.
Exercise does not have to take a backseat to your other responsibilities.
When the coach is at work, the father has to take a backseat.
Physical preparedness seems to take a backseat to nearly every other aspect of getting prepared.
So now there is a pro running things, you can take a backseat.
Does not a vote take a backseat to finding Church.
Anything for the money, where human rights take a backseat.
The captain thinks I should take a backseat until this whole Ray thing is settled.
When that happens, things that used to be important often take a backseat.
Country music is going to have to take a backseat to Hollywood tonight.
Can take a backseat this year, for the sake of the children.
Democracy has to take a backseat.
Now you take a backseat to that shit, nigga.

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