How to Use comeback in a Sentence

comeback

1 of 2 noun
  • The team mounted a comeback in the second half of the season.
  • The team was trailing after the first half, but they made a comeback and won in the second half.
  • The species was nearly extinct but is now making a comeback.
  • Short skirts were out of fashion for many years, but now they're making a comeback.
  • Her comeback tour is in full swing.
    — Tim Rohan, NBC news, 7 May 2026
  • Who’s the face of the comeback?
    — Katie Decker-Jacoby, StyleCaster, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Even a late comeback can't change that.
    — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Sep. 2025
  • That said, a comeback is on the cards.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
  • But the team couldn’t muster up a comeback.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Cold and snow will make a comeback across our home state.
    — Dave Aguilera, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Here is the home run that capped a wild comeback win.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026
  • The Knicks are the comeback kids.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
  • There will be no such comeback for Franklin.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Can throw the deep ball, can throw the out-route, the comeback, the digs.
    — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Nike is in the midst of a comeback attempt.
    — Merritt Enright, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Could the spoof film be making a comeback?
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The latest one to make a comeback?
    — Quincy Bulin, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Watch the video above to see a young hurdler's epic comeback.
    — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 26 May 2022
  • This is one way for players to avoid a bad beat on a late comeback.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Wouldn’t a huge in-season comeback wear a team out, too?
    — Mirjam Swanson, Oc Register, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Her story, though, is much more than a comeback tale.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some of these stocks are making comebacks.
    — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Heads would drop and the team lacked the fight to produce a comeback.
    — Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Oester did make a late-season comeback.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Feb. 2026
  • This is a one-night return to close the book, not a comeback tour.
    — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Are skills tests making a comeback?
    — Amy Lindgren, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The comeback was anything but clean.
    — Christopher Harris, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • That’s not easy to do, and few artists have managed that kind of a comeback.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • His comeback has been a struggle.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That’s why the comeback of the 300 makes so much sense.
    — Utkarsh Sood june 13, New Atlas, 13 June 2026

come back

2 of 2 verb
  • Get mad and come back stronger.
    — Tobias Bass, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Why come back and do this again?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That’s tough to come back from.
    — Jason Beede, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The bill will come back next year.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • How many of them will come back?
    — Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The feds came back again in the fall.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So why come back and do this again?
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
  • There was a big one that then came back.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Jan. 2026
  • She was told to come back in six weeks.
    — Jordan Greene, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Some of those things have not come back yet.
    — James Laporta, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • But once the garbage trucks left, the tents came back.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2025
  • That came back to haunt the Comets.
    — Nathan Dunn, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2026
  • But here, Gu came back with bite.
    — Sean Gregory, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Then Hall came back to win the game.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026
  • There is no coming back for him.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 5 Feb. 2026
  • And the second draft of it came back.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Her fans keep coming back for more.
    — Elaine Pofeldt, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Her mind kept coming back to one show.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Whole milk is coming back to schools!
    — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Why does mold keep coming back?
    — Ryan Brennan may 8, Kansas City Star, 8 May 2026
  • When done, come back here for Step 2.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Those days will never come back.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Then Dustin came back and slept on his kitchen floor.
    — Ellen Crean, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • You might be surprised by what comes back.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Not a minute later, the three came back.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Her cancer came back late last year.
    — Andrew Jones, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Shut down early, come back late.
    — Jen McCaffrey, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The layoffs were what came back.
    — Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • And the courage to come back to yourself.
    — Ashley B. Stewart, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Please come back my fair-weather friends.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026

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