How to Use double back in a Sentence

double back

verb
  • Now the trail has doubled back.
    — Spencer Elliott, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
  • Now Hendy doubled back, an ace up his sleeve.
    — Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
  • After that first week, Preller doubled back.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2025
  • That way, anything that falls gets picked up at the end instead of forcing you to double back.
    — Colleen Sullivan, Martha Stewart, 2 May 2026
  • Williams won two mixed doubles back in 1998 and was never likely to add a third here.
    — Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But that principle was abandoned nine years later, with the court doubling back on its position.
    — Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Up the stairs onto the elevated tracks, wait two minutes, double back again, through the park, across the basketball courts, around the corner.
    — Zayd Ayers Dohrn, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Johnson and Brown initially ran off; however, Brown later doubled back and was shot again, this time to death.
    — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Virtually all of the skill position players also double back on defense.
    — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The 34-year-old had followed a race motorbike off-course in the final mile, forcing himself to then double back in confusion to rejoin the route.
    — Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Blaxell displays a kind of flexible intelligence throughout the book — her sentences dart forward and double back on themselves.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The line doubled back on itself, filling the hall, video showed, and the TSA PreCheck line took just over 40 minutes to clear.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • However, in a Saturday update to social media, Ciccarelli doubled back in a big way.
    — Rhyma Castillo, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Mario doubled back for the Alabama cleansing, Nick Saban’s football version of a papal blessing and three years on staff making Mario hirable again.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Wall pointed to a key safety provision built into the course around Mile 18, where the route doubles back toward the finish so runners could cross to the return side rather than continuing through the most demanding stretch.
    — Michelle Edgar, Daily News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • On February 7, Crocker left the services in Detroit for Papa Earl and doubled back to East Lansing, where the Illini played Michigan State.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 3 Apr. 2026
  • One of the two tankers, linked to Pakistan, has since doubled back and was waiting just outside the strait, Pamela Munger, head of Europe market analysis at Vortexa, a trade and shipping intelligence firm, told CNN.
    — Kevin Liptak, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2026

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