How to Use go back in a Sentence

go back

phrasal verb
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  • The masked man followed, though Ago went back in and voted.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
  • But in a week of tough lines in the Big Ten, why not go back to the well once more?
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • And almost 100% of the proceeds went back to the chefs.
    — Noel Burgess, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • After the end of the exercise on Sunday, the American bomber turned around and went back home.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Kelly and Trump have a complicated relationship that goes back years.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 4 Nov. 2024
  • That would be the second-lowest October before a presidential election on record going back to 1980.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • From the Archives goes back to the first day of 1918 for this scene in Ocean Beach.
    — U-T Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • And mom had to go back to the hotel and grab something.
    — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And that means Willis will go back to watching for now.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The good news for the Heat is Butler went back on the court to shoot the two free throws and remained in the game.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
  • So this goes back a long way, about four-and-a-half years, to lockdown.
    — Scott Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The two go back and forth, prompting Cartwright to start crying.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 1 May 2024
  • For his most recent act, Hendrik went back to the source.
    — Alicia Erickson, Travel + Leisure, 27 Dec. 2023
  • Hallie Biden went back to that trash can to retrieve the gun, but it was gone.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 6 June 2024
  • His bacon shout-outs go back to at least late last year.
    — Courtenay Brown, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The candidates went back and forth over the rules for this debate.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The two then walk through the lobby and go back up to Pennig's apartment.
    — Hannah Vair, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The agency's records go back even further than NASA's, to 1849.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • After pulling off a massive heist, rarely does the thief go back to the scene of the crime for a second loot.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
  • Start your meal strong with a spring onion dip that will have your guests going back to the bowl for more and more.
    — Kara Peeler, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • Three days later, Ravi went back a third time; the drugs were still in his system.
    — Max Blau, NPR, 22 Sep. 2024
  • After the shooting stopped, people went back to the trucks, and the soldiers opened fire again.
    — Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But Pearce’s journey with the show goes back nearly 2½ years.
    — Liz Rothaus Bertrand, Charlotte Observer, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Some members had gone back to assess what was left of their homes.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • So, now, after the kids' eggs have been found, the teenagers go back outside to hide giant eggs for the adults.
    — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The history they are taught does not go back as far as 1948 when the Jews had to fight to the death to live in U.N.-sanctioned Israel.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
  • There's no one that goes back and places an addendum it.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 15 Aug. 2024
  • On the backside, visual effects had to go back and paint all those guys out.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The reason goes back to the involvement of those HER2 proteins.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Some of this substance comes out in poop, some goes back to your liver, and a bit of it leaves your body through urine.
    — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 12 Jan. 2024

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