Comeback is an English word with synonyms like return or counter. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Comeback in a sentence
Related words
Comeback meaning
- A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance.
- A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one.
- An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
Synonyms of Comeback
Using Comeback
- The main meaning on this page is: A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity or underperformance. | A retort or answer, particularly a quick or clever one. | An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
- Useful related words include: return, rejoinder, retort, riposte.
- In the example corpus, comeback often appears in combinations such as: comeback in, the comeback, making comeback.
Example sentences (20)
He even made a lead-role comeback in The Michael J. Fox Show on NBC, a sitcom that was loosely based on his own situation, with him taking on the role of a news anchor making a comeback after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s.
The Aaron Rodgers comeback that won’t actually result in a comeback has ultimately cost Kalon Barnes his job.
WWE released a new Nia Jax t-shirt after her comeback, but her comeback was for one night only in the end, while she is yet to confirm any future dates in wrestling as a whole.
A comeback for Berry at this point would be as admirable as the one for which he earned the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year award after overcoming a cancer diagnosis to return to form as the league’s most dynamic safety.
You get a Khari Jones, you get comeback win after comeback win and you turn your franchise around.
Elsewhere, following their remarkable Champions League 6-1 comeback against PSG, Barcelona are in contention for the Laureus World Comeback of the Year category.
Aboh Mbaise/ Ngor Okpala federal constituency is the Constituency of the immediate past governor of the state, Emeka Ihedioha, who is said to be eyeing a comeback as the governor of the state.
A controversial former star is making a comeback to the wrestling scene – decades after an explosive backstage bust-up with Vince McMahon.
After being all but a no-show in the first half against New Orleans on Saturday, guard Coby White got on a heater, scoring 28 of his season-high 31 points in the second-half comeback win.
After blowing a 15-point second-half lead, the Nuggets leaned on their generational superstar to survive a feverish comeback by Orlando.
After contributing two selections this year to the soundtrack of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever," Rihanna made her live music comeback Sunday on the world's biggest stage — the Super Bowl halftime.
After Covid we were able to return to the unit and things started getting better and ever since then we made a huge comeback.
After dragging themselves back into the match having gone two goals down within minutes of kick-off, Manchester United complete a spirited comeback to beat Nottingham Forest and extend their long winning streak at Old Trafford.
After lagging the S&P 500 and Nasdaq for most of the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is finally making a comeback.
After losing the closely fought opening game, Prannoy took the second game and was trailing 2-7 in the decider before scripting a comeback to clinch the match in one hour and 15 minutes.
After making a surprise comeback at where she won the SmackDown Women’s Championship, the babyface Lynch immediately turned heel.
After not having a late comeback in their first 30 games, the Los Angeles Angels have two in the past three days.
After Penn State cut Purdue’s lead to 73-63, Edey again found Braden Smith for an open 3-pointer with 1:12 left that ended any hopes for a Penn State comeback.
After several decades at the margins of American healthcare — and 100 years after he published his last major theoretical work — Sigmund Freud is enjoying something of a comeback.
A late comeback wasn’t enough for the Quirindi Lions to bag a win on their homeground against the Moree Bulls… despite plenty of action on the field.
Common combinations with comeback
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- comeback in 17×
- the comeback 15×
- making comeback 13×
- his comeback 13×
- comeback to 11×
- her comeback 9×
- comeback win 9×
- make comeback 9×
- comeback and 9×
- comeback against 6×