Returning can be categorized as a verb and an adjective.
Adjective |
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| returning - tending to be turned back | ||
| returning - tending to return to an earlier state | ||
Verb |
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| return - go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before; "return to your native land"; "the professor returned to his teaching position after serving as Dean" | ||
| return - make a return; "return a kickback" | ||
| return - return in kind; "return a compliment"; "return her love" | ||
| return - submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority; "submit a bill to a legislative body" | ||
| return - bring back to the point of departure | ||
| return - return to a previous position; in mathematics; "The point returned to the interior of the figure" | ||
| return - go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" | ||
| return - give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" | ||
| return - pay back; "Please refund me my money" | ||
| return - answer back | ||
| return - give back; "render money" | ||
| return - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" | ||
| return - elect again | ||
| return - go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" | ||
| return - be restored; "Her old vigor returned" | ||
| return - pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment" |
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| 1. | verb | They're currently on their honeymoon but shortly after returning will be moving from Buenos Aires to Miami, Florida. | |
| 2. | verb | We've booked Italy tickets this week for departing Houston on Friday, May 24 to Newark/Rome and returning on Sunday, June 9 from Rome to Newark/Houston. | |
| 3. | verb | Now feel yourself returning to where you sit ... move your hands and feet a little, stretch them. | |
| 4. | verb | The two developments, he said, could eventually enable China's space program to mature to the point that experts could assemble and launch from Earth's orbit a spacecraft capable of circling the moon with astronauts and returning home. | |
| 5. | verb | Sure, some will return, but I have a feeling that once many begin to get jobs and temporary housing, they may be shy about returning. | |
| 6. | verb | Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home that the Bush administration has permitted to be photographed. | |
| 7. | verb | I enjoy going there although i've only been there once, i will be returning toda to recieve a pair of french tips and i will only go to the best and to me the best is here. | |
| 8. | verb | After the way she spoke to me on my last visit, I will not be returning!! | |
| 9. | verb | She told me she could not use the piece I was returning and the company would only put it in the trash so I could not return it. | |
| 10. | verb | The number of Japanese students returning after life abroad has been increasing as of late. | |
| 11. | verb | Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese. | |
| 12. | verb | I remember returning the book to the library. | |
| 13. | verb | There is no hurry about returning the book to me. | |
| 14. | verb | So perhaps this was their ancient god returning after his long absence. | |
| 15. | verb | One day, a black woman, Rosa Parks, was returning home after a hard day's work. | |
| 16. | noun | He won the point on a cross-court return. | |
| 17. | noun | The average return was about 5% | |
| 18. | noun | They set out on their return to the base camp. | |
| 19. | noun | In return we gave them as good as we got. | |
| 20. | noun | On his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party. | |
| 21. | noun | His gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return. | |
| 22. | noun | The return of spring. |
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| They're currently on their honeymoon but shortly after returning will be moving from Buenos Aires to Miami, Florida. |
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| We've booked Italy tickets this week for departing Houston on Friday, May 24 to Newark/Rome and returning on Sunday, June 9 from Rome to Newark/Houston. |
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| Now feel yourself returning to where you sit ... move your hands and feet a little, stretch them. |
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| The two developments, he said, could eventually enable China's space program to mature to the point that experts could assemble and launch from Earth's orbit a spacecraft capable of circling the moon with astronauts and returning home. |
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| Sure, some will return, but I have a feeling that once many begin to get jobs and temporary housing, they may be shy about returning. |
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| Number of coffins of dead soldiers returning home that the Bush administration has permitted to be photographed. |
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| I enjoy going there although i've only been there once, i will be returning toda to recieve a pair of french tips and i will only go to the best and to me the best is here. |
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| After the way she spoke to me on my last visit, I will not be returning!! |
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| She told me she could not use the piece I was returning and the company would only put it in the trash so I could not return it. |
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| The number of Japanese students returning after life abroad has been increasing as of late. | |
| Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese. | |
| I remember returning the book to the library. | |
| There is no hurry about returning the book to me. | |
| So perhaps this was their ancient god returning after his long absence. | |
| One day, a black woman, Rosa Parks, was returning home after a hard day's work. | |
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| He won the point on a cross-court return. |
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| The average return was about 5% |
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| They set out on their return to the base camp. |
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| In return we gave them as good as we got. |
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| On his return from Australia we gave him a welcoming party. |
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| His gross income was enough that he had to file a tax return. |
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| The return of spring. |
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