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cost a certain amount
My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000 -
put something back where it belongs
replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it
please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them
How To Use put back In A Sentence
- However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.
- You cannot put back the clock.
- Poor trading figures put back our plans for expansion.
- Slice the kombu thinly and put back into the lentils. Times, Sunday Times
- The game was to have been played last Sunday week but was put back due to an objection being lodged against the Cork champions by the opposing team in the Munster final.
- He watched me slantendicular and then put back his head. Isabelle
- Feather mattresses removed, aired and fluffed before being put back in their place.
- Police in West Yorkshire are taking on more than 20 financial investigators to make sure that criminals' ill-gotten gains get put back into the community.
- Add the ghosts and put back into the oven for 3-4 min until melted but so the shape of the ghosts is still intact. Times, Sunday Times
- Weapons were lowered, bows unbent, and arrows put back in their quivers. THE PROUD GOAT OFALOYSIUS PANKBURN