We found over 1000 examples of how to use back in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 1000.
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| 1. | I looked back to see if she was looking back to see if I had looked back. | |
| 2. | Get back, get back! | |
| 3. | The two houses stand back to back. | |
| 4. | You and I must stick close, back to back. | |
| 5. | You had better put the book back on the desk, for the owner will come back there. | |
| 6. | Black people had to sit in the back of the bus, or stand if the back was full. | |
| 7. | She's determined to get back at her friend for stabbing her in the back. | |
| 8. | If you sleep on your back it's easier for your upper airway to be obstructed because your tongue, uvula, etc. slip towards the back of your throat. | |
| 9. | Tomorrow is back-to-school day! For once, I'm anxious to go back. | |
| 10. | Recently my brother in law, artillery major Y, came back from a three year trip in Paris. Surrounded by a great number of souvenirs he had brought back, we heard tales of his travels. | |
| 11. | I want my money back and I want it back now. | |
| 12. | When he comes back, tell him I'm indisposed and shall get back at him tomorrow. | |
| 13. | After the iron had cooled off, Mary wrapped the electrical cord around the iron, put the iron back on the shelf, folded up the ironing board, and put it away back in the closet. | |
| 14. | When you cause problems with the wrong people, those problems will come pay you back, or come back to haunt you. | |
| 15. | "Think of me when you go back to Australia," Mary told Tom, as she tried in vain to hold back her tears. "When shall I ever see you again?" | |
| 16. | Sit with your back straight and your shoulders back. | |
| 17. | Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! | |
| 18. | In the back of my mind, I thought that the assailants would come back to finish the job. | |
| 19. | A milk boy, passing on his way to the dairy, happened to walk down the lane which leads from the mews at the back of the hotel. He noticed that a ladder, which usually lay there, was raised against one of the windows of the second floor, which was wide open. After passing, he looked back and saw a man descend the ladder. He came down so quietly and openly that the boy imagined him to be some carpenter or joiner at work in the hotel. | |
| 20. | Sami will be back when you're back. | |
| 21. | It's an old back injury that's come back. | |
| 22. | “Go back!” she said. “Go straight back to London, instantly.” | |
| 23. | When you cross the date line, you become a time traveler of sorts! Cross to the west and it’s one day later; cross back and you’ve "gone back in time." | |
| 24. | "Back o'er the deep," cries Calchas; "nevermore / shall Argives hope to quell the Trojan might, / till, homeward borne, new omens ye implore, / and win the blessing back, which o'er the waves ye bore." | |
| 25. | Sami had to put the manikin back together before his boss came back. |