VERB
- move text to the previous line; in printing
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cause someone to remember the past
This photo takes me back to the good old days - bring back to the point of departure
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take back what one has said
He swallowed his words - resume a relationship with someone after an interruption, as in a wife taking back her husband
- regain possession of something
How To Use take back In A Sentence
- Some were in the market's baladi cafés sipping mint tea and smoking their shishas, while others shopped for souvenirs to take back home.
- The controversy follows close on the heels of the FY99 Appropriations Bill Report which noted China was increasing its readiness and ability to take back what China considers to be the renegade province.
- He would neither apologize nor take back what he had said.
- Some time after, his friends prevailed with the bishop of Glasgow to repone him, upon condition he would take back his declinature, and for that purpose, wrote to Mr. Dickson to come to Glasgow. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- The butte was a strong point that the Council of Masters would very much like to take back. The Flood
- The USA are red-hot favourites to take back the cup after three successive defeats. The Sun
- This shop promises to take back any goods that don't satisfy the person who buys them.
- The change is meant to spur directors to take back board powers ceded over the years to managers.
- I want to take back control of our democracy and our country. Times, Sunday Times
- Driven out of the city by the Hakka General the previous year, Sun had been allowed to take back the title of generalissimo by two other warlords: General Yang of the Army of Yunnan and General Liu of the Army of Kwangsi, both provinces lying west of Canton’s province of Kwangtung. The Last Empress
