go back

VERB
  1. return in thought or speech to something
  2. regain a former condition after a financial loss
    We expect the stocks to recover to $2.90
    The company managed to recuperate
  3. belong to an earlier time
    This story dates back 200 years
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How To Use go back In A Sentence

  • Both Mandarin ba and Cantonese baat go back to Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bʀyat but this word is without any reconstructable tone. Mommy, where do tones come from?
  • I go back now and the dialect of the old residents is noticeably absent, replaced by the faux scouse of the Liverpudlian refugees.
  • You can't go back on your promise now.
  • We will therefore go back to the electorate to renew our mandate with confidence.
  • You would go back to a handful of radio news bulletins. The Sun
  • So now we want to have "someone" fix it so we can go back to jumby-land. Obama Will Spend over $3 Trillion on ECONWAR! Fire and Penalize the Bank Oligarchs
  • But I'll certainly let you know before I go backpacking in Borneo. C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
  • Only 1 per cent of the flies are required to go back into the farm to repopulate the system. Times, Sunday Times
  • But if the Tanoan Native Americans wanted me off their land and to go back where I came from, where would I go? More on Chomsky and Anti-Semitism
  • Q So, you're saying the four of them at least, even though they already were voting for Foster, will now go back with some kind of invigorated motivation to convince -- Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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