go back

phrasal verb

went back; gone back; going back; goes back

1

: to return to a place

I forgot my purse and had to go back for it.

After college she went back home.

Go back inside! You'll catch cold.

2

: to return to doing something

I turned off the alarm and went back to sleep.

He waved hello, then went right back to work.

She went back to eating her dinner.

3

: to have existed for a particular amount of time or since a particular period

These ruins go back hundreds of years.

4

: to have known each other for an amount of time

We go back 30 years.

He and I go back a long way.

5

: to think or talk about something from the past

To fully understand the issues, we have to go back a few years.

Examples of go back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The bullish intermediate-term shift comes after a successful test of long-term support going back to 2019, near $4.90. —Katie Stockton, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024

Titan had been making voyages to the Titanic wreckage site going back to 2021. —CBS News, 23 Sep. 2024

And that means Willis will go back to watching for now. —Rob Reischel, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

Three days later, Ravi went back a third time; the drugs were still in his system. —Max Blau, NPR, 22 Sep. 2024