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
  • The assessor's rollback will be his third in the past five years.
    — Robert Rhoden, NOLA.com, 16 May 2018
  • Its rollback has been a slower process, but a welcome and healthy one.
    — The Editors, National Review, 16 May 2024
  • Foohey thinks a lot of the rollbacks are self-defeating.
    — Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • Companies that close that gap won't just avoid the rollback.
    — Cindy Rodriguez Constable, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, concerns grew over the past year that the rollback wouldn’t work in the first place.
    — Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 June 2026
  • That rollback may have left an opening for smaller brands to enter the space.
    — Brittany Martin, Outside Online, 9 June 2022
  • 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
  • Morse said the rollback of restrictions has led to poor mask wearing.
    — Adrienne Broaddus, CNN, 18 Mar. 2021
  • There was no broad rollback of the restrictions on seven rare earths.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 6 June 2025
  • Already there have been dire effects of the current rollback.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • And the flawed draft analyses that laid the foundation for the rollback will no doubt come up in court.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
  • The rollback takes the March launch window out of play for Artemis 2.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • For consumer advocates, the rollback is a gut punch.
    — AFAR Media, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Trump took credit for the DEI rollback.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 3 June 2026
  • Voters would have to petition for a rollback election this year and next.
    — Dallas News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Relative to those programs, the rollback in the child tax credit is small.
    — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2022
  • As a result, stocks rallied in response to the prospect of tariff rollbacks.
    — NBC News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Four out of 10 favored a rollback, but just half of those called for total repeal.
    — Washington Post, 28 July 2019
  • That’s where the rollback on compensation rules stings.
    — AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And with the rollback of most precautions, stores, restaurants, even the roads are crowded again.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • The rollback comes almost a year after the public health order was first put into place.
    — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 9 June 2021
  • The rollbacks take effect this academic year.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Of the 7,400 active price rollbacks, most of the cuts are on groceries.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Walmart has all new rollbacks and flash deals on its website this week with items marked up to 65 percent off.
    — Josie Howell | [email protected], al, 13 Sep. 2023
  • That pressure is expected to ease in the years ahead, given the rollback in standards.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Across the west nearly three-in-five voters in the poll say the rollbacks are a very serious problem.
    — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Paul Scott said a rollback was crucial to the future of many city neighborhoods.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025
  • One of our favorite Walmart rollbacks right now is on a Carote cookware set.
    — Kasey Caminiti, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2024

roll back

2 of 2 verb
  • Now that progress could be rolled back.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • His wife’s eyes started rolling back in her head.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 21 June 2026
  • A day when the clock was rolled back on a lot of people’s lives.
    — Shane Harris, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
  • An epoch receipt says the system has not rolled back.
    — Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Those dust bunnies will roll back out into view at some point.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
  • Users can roll back the update through a voice command.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Much of Kennedy’s work and legacy have been rolled back and erased.
    — Leah M. Wright, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2025
  • Cusk shows how stories gather weight and mass and cannot be rolled back.
    — Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Some balls land on the green and stick, others roll back into the drink.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2023
  • Usher is still on a roll, and appears to have rolled back the hands of time.
    — Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Oslo will now start to roll back some tax exemptions over the next two years.
    — Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Oslo will now start to roll back some tax exemptions over the next two years.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Hold here for three seconds, then roll back until your hips are over your knees.
    — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Trump officials rolled back those rules.
    — Collin Binkley, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • From there, the series rolls back to 1880.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Everything keeps rolling back around.
    — Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Now the clouds are lifting, the wallpaper is rolling back in waves.
    — Meredi Ortega, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Why have so many wealth taxes been rolled back globally, then?
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Here are a few stocks that are expected to soar as some tariffs are rolled back.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
  • And in spite of the rhetoric, neither side tried to roll back the forces of the other on the ground.
    — Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Then, roll back through these options and choose whichever feels best to begin with.
    — Renae Gregoire, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Now, those local efforts are being rolled back.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
  • In many respects, Bates promised on the campaign trail to roll back some of those changes.
    — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2022
  • But a few states, in fact, nine states, recently filed a motion to roll back these changes.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Anything too short with too much spin could roll back some 50 yards down the fairway.
    — CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • The move rolled back fuel economy rules.
    — Charles Singh, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • An answer is written on the orange and then rolled back to reporters.
    — Shawna Mizelle, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Try easing up the pressure, then lightly roll back and forth over the muscle.
    — Health Editorial Team, Health, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Those have mostly been rolled back for a variety of reasons.
    — Torie Bosch, STAT, 11 Apr. 2026
  • But a change in state law last year forced the county to roll back its regulations.
    — Mary Ramsey march 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026

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