How to Use go back in a Sentence

go back

phrasal verb

• After a few minutes, the band continued their performance and went back on the stage.
  — EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024
• Go downstairs to start the coffee in the French press, then go back upstairs to get dressed (joggers and a comfy T-shirt) before heading back down to finish getting the coffee made.
  — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 16 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
• 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 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
• But go back just 10 years, and the story was very different.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2023
• Add our favorites to your cart before prices go back up.
  — Clara McMahon, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
• Now, maybe Biden will kind of go back to stasis and be able to get more attention.
  — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
• Theo had been sitting on the porch rocker watching Shirlee go back and forth.
  — Addie Citchens, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
• The celebration goes back to pre-Hispanic times when it was believed the dead come back to visit the living.
  — Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
• Right after that hookup, Lucy went back to Leo (Thomas Doherty) and slept with him — without even changing her underwear.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024