Thesaurus / back
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
In an hour he was back again with a huge bundle of dry wood.
A ROVING COMMISSIONG. A. HENTY
Bill was anxious to get back to poor Jack, who he remembered was well-nigh starving.
FROM POWDER MONKEY TO ADMIRALW.H.G. KINGSTON
You have fifteen rum-shops to meet before you get back to your wife and child.
A SINGULAR LIFEELIZABETH STUART PHELPS
Mat Gleason, superintendent of the Oro Ranch, loafed, his back against a post.
OVERLAND REDHENRY HERBERT KNIBBS
There was a large yard at the back, and in one corner of it was the shed, which did duty for a stable.
UNDER THE RED CRESCENTCHARLES S. RYAN
"I certainly don't spend my whole time lying on my back looking at the ceiling," she answered rather brusquely.
THE LIMITADA LEVERSON
You'll hear more than'll go down your back pleasant afore I've done wid you, ma'am.
FARDOROUGHA, THE MISERWILLIAM CARLETON
Mrs. Page could not get back of Harriet's revolt to its cause.
KMARY ROBERTS RINEHART
She has one child strapped across her back, and she is leading another.
ROLLO ON THE RHINEJACOB ABBOTT
They must take horse at once and get back to the hills above the Rio Chama Valley.
A DAUGHTER OF THE DONSWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
WORDS RELATED TO BACK
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- advocate
- appreciate
- approbate
- approve
- back
- be in favor of
- buck for
- champion
- choose
- commend
- cotton to
- countenance
- encourage
- endorse
- esteem
- eulogize
- fancy
- flash on
- for
- go for
- hold with
- honor
- incline
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- prize
- regard highly
- root for
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- buck for
- champion
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- cotton to
- countenance
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- eulogize
- fancy
- flash on
- for
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- honor
- incline
- lean toward
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- praise
- prize
- regard highly
- root for
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- support
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- tilt toward
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- a while later
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- attendant
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- by and by
- coming
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- consecutive
- consequent
- consequential
- directly after
- ensuing
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- hinder
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- in search of
- in the wake of
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- rear
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- serial
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- then
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- before
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- before this
- down memory lane
- earlier
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- heretofore
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- of yore
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- once
- once upon a time
- radically
- some time ago
- time was
- used to be
- water under the bridge
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