Explore Back through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like front or support. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
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Back meaning
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Not current.
Synonyms of Back
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Using Back
- The main meaning on this page is: At or near the rear. | Returned or restored to a previous place or condition. | Not current.
- Useful related words include: front, support, rear, back up.
- Possible Dutch translations are: rug, achterkant, achter.
- In the example corpus, back often appears in combinations such as: back to, back in, the back.
Context around Back
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 12 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Back
- In this selection, "back" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, left, wing, hit, home, 400 and wants stand out and add context to how "back" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include back to back home runs and back to back 400 yard. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "back" sits close to words such as may, him and being, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with back
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I have shot for back to back films, back to back shifts. (12 words)
Following convention, this is called back-to-back-to-back-to-back. (12 words)
J. D. Drew has been part of two different sets of back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs. (20 words)
The Shockers bounced back, loading the bases in the top of the sixth to tie the game after back-to-back-to-back runners walked in. The lead didn’t last long, however, as junior infielder Arieann Bell hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the sixth. (49 words)
She said: "It's been a bit of a whirlwind week, and hopefully it's a means to an end and I can get back, and back to normality, go back to work, drive my digger - hide back under my rock. (41 words)
It is the first time of his career to post back-to-back 400-yard passing games, and the first time any Cowboys quarterback has ever posted back-to-back 400-yard games in franchise history. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
At the same time, having all of these different guys, like Abyss, is back there, Bobby Roode is back there, Shane Helms is back there, Petey Williams is back there, Daivari is back there.
She said: "It's been a bit of a whirlwind week, and hopefully it's a means to an end and I can get back, and back to normality, go back to work, drive my digger - hide back under my rock.
The full back or wing back did well on the right of the back three before switching to right-wing back and scoring twice in the second half.
Lynn converted a fourth down to keep its opening series alive, and after back-to-back false start penalties, back-to-back big runs gave them another first down.
I have shot for back to back films, back to back shifts.
It is the first time of his career to post back-to-back 400-yard passing games, and the first time any Cowboys quarterback has ever posted back-to-back 400-yard games in franchise history.
That means that my left-back defends as a left-back and then when we go in attacking organisation, my left-back becomes one of the three in the back.
The Shockers bounced back, loading the bases in the top of the sixth to tie the game after back-to-back-to-back runners walked in. The lead didn’t last long, however, as junior infielder Arieann Bell hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the sixth.
Paige Cappaert serve for back-to-back aces and Makayla Johnson and Anders had back-to-back kills to push the lead to 14-6.
Crystal Palace manager Mr Roy wants Ruben Loftus-Cheek back, wants him back, wants him back … yeah he wants him back for good.
If ‘liberty lovers’ like to sleep back-to-back (close to each but without touching), people who prefer the ‘back kissing’ style at night actually touch each other’s back.
Jason Dufner cards back-to-back bogeys at 15 and 16; his demeanour is exactly the same as it was upon making back-to-back birdies at the start of his round.
Tonight’s back-to-back home runs hit by Anthony Garcia and Franklin Barreto was the fourth time this season a pair of Sounds hit back-to-back homers in a game.
A subtractive decoding bus bridge must know to expect this extra delay in the event of back-to-back cycles in order to advertise back-to-back support.
Back to back A back-to-back station (or B2B for short) is a plant in which both converters are in the same area, usually in the same building.
Following convention, this is called back-to-back-to-back-to-back.
In this game, Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramírez, and Juan Uribe hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs in that order.
J. D. Drew has been part of two different sets of back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs.
For me, it is quite simple this afternoon: if he is fit enough to start, Vitaliy Mykolenko should come straight back in, with Jarrad Branthwaite moving back to centre-back in place of Michael Keane.
He finished four-over-par after 36 holes dropping seven shots in his back nine today, that included back-to-back bogeys on the 17th and 18th that saw him slip below the cut mark.
Common combinations with back
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- back to 59×
- back in 31×
- the back 30×
- to back 21×
- back and 19×
- is back 13×
- back of 12×
- go back 10×
- back on 10×
- come back 9×