How to Use go back in a Sentence

go back

verb
  • Please go back and read the dms.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Some nuns go back to their rooms.
    — Sophie Neiman, NPR, 20 June 2026
  • And so these pieces should go back.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • The Knicks went back to it again.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • To go back to Lorne for a minute.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 4 June 2026
  • Pop, stop, pop, go, go back, go back, go back.
    — Outside Online, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The bill will now go back to the House.
    — Jack Harvel april 16, Kansas City Star, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Kid and Fenix went back-and-forth with chops.
    — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • That goes back to the talk radio.
    — Marlow Stern, Variety, 13 June 2026
  • Stock prices will rapidly go back up.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Stock prices will rapidly go back up.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Kirby sucked it up and went back to work.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The guides went back to fishing.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 25 Mar. 2026
  • People just think, go back home and start again.
    — ABC News, 20 June 2026
  • These questions go back decades.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The problem of wage theft in the state goes back years.
    — P.r. Lockhart, Hartford Courant, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Well, okay, so let's, go back in time a little bit.
    — Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2026
  • So, the Carlsons went back to work.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • The team’s went back to even strength, but the B’s were not done.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Stuck with it, went back to the minors, got called up, got his chance.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 22 Jan. 2026
  • There’s just no going back for Pitt and his kids.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 22 May 2026
  • Let’s go back to the mayor for a second.
    — Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Some are going back to study or launch startups.
    — Lily Wright, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
  • The first goes back to supply and demand.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Most people never go back and study them.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
  • Andy Pages fouled the ball off and Ohtani went back to first.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 12 June 2026
  • Bambaataa’s story goes back to the dawn of hip-hop.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Leewright went back to her other duties.
    — Kevin Foster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Trump clearly does not want to go back to all-out war at the moment.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • In other words, there’s no going back.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 June 2026

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