How to Use rollback in a Sentence

rollback

1 of 2 noun
  • To start, the board must vote for a rent rollback or a rent freeze in June.
    David R. Jones, New York Daily News, 28 May 2024
  • Juneteenth will find its place among the racial unrest, the good, the bad, the progress, the rollback.
    Lisa Vernon Sparks, Charlotte Observer, 19 June 2024
  • In fact, what if a 10% home-price rollback does not help?
    Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 25 May 2024
  • In May, Iowa’s Gov. Reynolds signed one of the most extreme rollbacks in the country.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The rollback starts Thursday and runs through April 30.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • This subtle shift marks a distinction between the rollback in the UK and in the US.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Its rollback has been a slower process, but a welcome and healthy one.
    The Editors, National Review, 16 May 2024
  • That rollback may have left an opening for smaller brands to enter the space.
    Brittany Martin, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
  • And with the rollback of most precautions, stores, restaurants, even the roads are crowded again.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • Morse said the rollback of restrictions has led to poor mask wearing.
    Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The victim was driving a rollback wrecker when the truck was struck by a CSX engine.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Relative to those programs, the rollback in the child tax credit is small.
    Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The new rollback sets the state even further behind, likely to the detriment of ratepayers statewide.
    Cynthia Koehler, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Walmart just launched a fall sale full of its famous rollback deals — and many of them simply cannot be missed.
    Ariel Scotti, Peoplemag, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The legendary Clevelander hotel and bar on Ocean Drive sued the city over the alcohol rollback last spring.
    David Fischer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Newsom told Politico and NBC the move was inspired in part by the rollback of gun safety measures by the courts.
    USA TODAY, 8 June 2023
  • Already there have been dire effects of the current rollback.
    Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • One of our favorite Walmart rollbacks right now is on a Carote cookware set.
    Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Even at this speed, the rollback can cause wear and tear, as the motion and vibrations can put stress on the rocket—so the Artemis team doesn't want to roll in and out too many times.
    WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Walmart has all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This is higher than the forecast that prompted a rollback during Ian.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Walmart has added all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    Josie Howell | Jhowell@al.com, al, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The rollback comes almost a year after the public health order was first put into place.
    Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2021
  • That number included a 35% year-over-year increase in the number of rollbacks for food.
    Melissa Repko, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The consequences of the reproductive-rights rollback have been dire.
    TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The rollback of women’s rights is not restricted to Europe.
    Linda Robinson, Foreign Affairs, 3 July 2024
  • Mayor Todd Gloria has left leadership of the possible rollback of the city’s granny flat rules to Elo-Rivera.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
  • The ruling was then reversed by a D.C. court judge earlier this year which gave the Department six weeks to prepare for the rollback.
    Luke Barr, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • His return to the White House next year is expected to lead to a rollback of a number of federal environmental protections and an increase in U.S fossil fuel production and use in the long term.
    Rachel Frazin, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
  • What to watch: Environmentalists are concerned about rollbacks to clean water provisions, including a rule requiring all lead pipes in drinking water systems to be identified and replaced over the next 10 years.
    Marina E. Franco (noticias Telemundo For Axios), Axios, 26 Nov. 2024
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roll back

2 of 2 verb
  • A day when the clock was rolled back on a lot of people’s lives.
    Shane Harris, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Usher is still on a roll, and appears to have rolled back the hands of time.
    Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Some balls land on the green and stick, others roll back into the drink.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • In many respects, Bates promised on the campaign trail to roll back some of those changes.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2022
  • Now the clouds are lifting, the wallpaper is rolling back in waves.
    Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • But when Nadal took the fifth game of the second set, time seemed to suddenly roll back.
    Kyle Feldscher, CNN, 29 July 2024
  • Cusk shows how stories gather weight and mass and cannot be rolled back.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
  • But a few states, in fact, nine states, recently filed a motion to roll back these changes.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Try easing up the pressure, then lightly roll back and forth over the muscle.
    Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Hold here for three seconds, then roll back until your hips are over your knees.
    Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • An answer is written on the orange and then rolled back to reporters.
    Shawna Mizelle, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Here are five things to watch for as Congress rolls back to Washington for the end-of-the-year legislative sprint.
    Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Clocks roll back an hour this Sunday — to the chagrin of many Americans.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Does Biden have a plan to roll back the new anti-American axis?
    Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
  • In warm weather the ceiling over the top floor rolls back for the place to become an open-air deck beneath a canopy of patio lights.
    Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The fall of affirmative action is part of a 50-year campaign to roll back racial progress.
    Nikole Hannah-Jones Nikole Hannah-Jones Phoebe Zerwick Sam Apple Kwame Anthony Appiah Yotam Ottolenghi Jillian Steinhauer Peter C. Baker John Hodgman, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Destiny 2 developer may need to roll back its servers, but how long has this exploit been in the game?
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The lure will waddle and roll back and forth along the surface, creating its calling-card V wake.
    Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Later that year, Modi made a rare mea culpa and announced plans to roll back the reforms.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Walmart is the largest company to roll back its DEI policies.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2024
  • Then use a sharp knife or shovel to cut into the turf on three sides of a one-square-foot area, rolling back the sod and sifting through the top few inches of soil.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But the United States has not succeeded in compelling Iran to roll back the use of its asymmetric tools.
    Jon B. Alterman, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Trump also wants to roll back Biden’s climate-change policies.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The country should roll back tariffs, strike more free trade deals with major economies and trade blocs, and cut back on the use of anti-dumping.
    Time, 28 July 2023
  • States are slowly starting to roll back some of the barriers for treatment.
    Sandhya Raman Cq-Roll Call (tns), al, 19 Oct. 2022
  • This can be rolled back if desired, and there's also talk of a removable hardtop as well.
    Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Those ties have held even as Beijing rolled back restrictions.
    Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Engage abs for stability, then roll back so weight shifts into heels and toes lift up off the floor.
    Angela Gargano, Lauren Del Turco, Women's Health, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The new law, which took effect July 1, is among efforts nationwide to roll back trans rights.
    John Hanna The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • By utilizing what’s known as the Congressional Review Act, Congress has the ability to roll back rules that agencies have recently put in place.
    Li Zhou, WIRED, 23 Nov. 2024

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