How to Use back home in a Sentence

back home

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  • All will be aware of the need to perform for the fans back home as much as for those in the stadium.
    — Roger Trapp, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • For example, if your adult child is moving back home, set the ground rules upfront.
    — Jill Schlesinger, Mercury News, 29 June 2026
  • Though apparently, not all of their fans are heading back home for the rest of the summer.
    — Austin Perry Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • The airline deemed her too far along in her pregnancy to board her flight back home to England.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Before then, during the first few years of the race, runners simply received 15 cents for bus fare back home.
    — Staff, AJC.com, 4 July 2026
  • The family of Mejía Meléndez had planned to celebrate with him once back home.
    — Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, NPR, 30 June 2026
  • Harry has made solo trips back home to England but has not seen his father since September.
    — Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • Your phone will be useful for finding your way around a new city, keeping in touch with friends and family back home, and posting photos on social media.
    — ABC News, 1 July 2026
  • The concept was inspired by the bright, inviting and community-focused cafés its founder missed from back home in Australia.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • That’s usually when July 4th fireworks watchers are already back home.
    — Josh Meyer, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • The Argentina squad brought more than a thousand pounds of beef to Kansas City to make sure the players have the same diet as back home.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026
  • Leonard left Toronto immediately after winning that title to sign back home with the Clippers, but clearly, there is no ill will from either side here.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • However, with three points and a -1 goal differential, the South Koreans were not one of the eight-best third-place teams, which meant an early return flight back home.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • This cap-sleeve blouse has a versatile V-neck silhouette that looks equally appropriate for museum days, cruise dinners, and casual office days back home.
    — Aashna Gheewalla, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
  • Both pitchers played important roles in the country’s World Baseball Classic championship, a victory that left players in tears and gave their friends back home so much to be proud of.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • The dream comes true for Evelyn, who marries a wealthy surgeon living in New York; meanwhile, Maggie is living in shame back home, after becoming pregnant out of wedlock.
    — Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 1 July 2026
  • An insurance policy’s medical evacuation benefit typically gets you to the nearest adequate facility, not the hospital of your choice back home.
    — Christopher Elliott, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • If anything, the future Hall of Famer sure appeared to enjoy his time back home, which was a major reason why Leonard initially turned down a royal life in Canada to play for Southern California’s other team.
    — Joaquin Ruiz, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • It was seen back home as a chance for a gifted generation of players — including Son, Paris Saint-Germain winger Lee Kang-in and Bayern Munich centre-back Kim Min-jae — to take South Korea to another level on the world stage.
    — Tomás Hill López-Menchero, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • Boeing, however, has just one astronaut flight under its belt — CFT, which launched in June 2024 and encountered multiple problems, resulting in NASA having to bring the two astronauts back home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule instead of Starliner.
    — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 1 July 2026

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