Thesaurus / back
FEEDBACKHow to use back in a sentence
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
THE BOARDED-UP HOUSEAUGUSTA HUIELL SEAMANAges back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUSThe boys were tumbling about, clinging to his legs, imploring that numerous things be brought back to them.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINWith a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
THE PASTOR'S FIRE-SIDE VOL. 3 OF 4JANE PORTERShe was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPINThe strains of the syren at last woke her uncle, and brought back Miss Hood, who suggested that it was late.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSDrowned every few seconds by our tremendous salvoes, this more nervous noise crept back insistently into our ears in the interval.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONOff went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSA few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONThe doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO BACK
- acclaims
- advances
- advocates
- applauds
- backs
- celebrates
- commends
- compliments
- confirms
- counsels
- endorses
- enjoins
- esteems
- eulogizes
- exalts
- exhorts
- extols
- favors
- front for
- glorifies
- goes on record for
- holds up
- is all for
- is satisfied with
- justifies
- lauds
- magnifies
- plugs
- praises
- prescribes
- prizes
- proposes
- puts forward
- puts in a good word
- puts on to
- sanctions
- seconds
- speaks highly of
- speaks well of
- stands by
- steers
- suggests
- thinks highly of
- upholds
- urges
- values
- vouch for
- alien
- back
- backwoods
- beyond
- boondocks
- devious
- distant
- far
- far-flung
- far-off
- faraway
- foreign
- frontier
- god-knows-where
- godforsaken
- in a backwater
- inaccessible
- isolated
- lonely
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- middle of nowhere
- obscure
- off the beaten path
- off-lying
- outlandish
- outlying
- private
- removed
- retired
- secluded
- secret
- undiscovered
- unknown
- unsettled
- wild
- abjure
- back
- back down
- back off
- back out of
- call off
- cancel
- change one's mind
- countermand
- deny
- disavow
- disclaim
- disown
- draw in
- eat one's words
- eliminate
- exclude
- fall back
- forget it
- forswear
- go back on
- have change of heart
- pull back
- pull in
- recall
- recant
- recede
- reel in
- renege
- renounce
- repeal
- repudiate
- rescind
- retreat
- retrocede
- retrograde
- reverse
- revoke
- rule out
- sheathe
- suspend
- take back
- take in
- unsay
- withdraw
- abandon
- avoid
- back
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- beat it
- cave in
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- depart
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- draw back
- ebb
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- escape
- evacuate
- evade
- fall back
- fold
- give ground
- go
- go along with
- go back
- hand over
- hide
- keep aloof
- keep apart
- lay down
- leave
- move back
- opt out
- pull out
- quail
- quit
- recede
- recoil
- reel
- regress
- relinquish
- resign
- retire
- retrocede
- retrograde
- reverse
- run
- seclude oneself
- sequester
- shrink
- start back
- turn tail
- vacate
- withdraw
- abandons
- avoids
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- back out
- backs
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- beats it
- caves in
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- departs
- disengages
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- ebbs
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- escapes
- evacuates
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- folds
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- goes
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- hands over
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- recedes
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- relinquishes
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- retrogrades
- reverses
- runs
- seclude oneself
- sequesters
- shrinks
- starts back
- turns tail
- vacates
- withdraws
- about-face
- antipode
- antipole
- antithesis
- back
- bottom
- change of mind
- contra
- contradiction
- contradictory
- contrary
- converse
- counter
- counterpole
- flip side
- flip-flop
- inverse
- other side
- overturning
- rear
- regression
- retrogression
- retroversion
- reversal
- reversement
- reversion
- switch
- turn
- turnabout
- turnaround
- turning
- underside
- verso
- volte-face
- wrong side
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