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Example sentences for "came back"

  • He came back with an angry, lugubrious face--and a broken arm.

  • Yes, I've had letters from some of them, and I've seen most of them since I came back.

  • And then I came back as if I came back to a refrain;--the ideas go on--as though we are all no more than little cells and corpuscles in some great brain beyond our understanding.

  • I came back to London victorious, and a little flushed and coarse with victory; and so soon as I could break away I went to Isabel's flat and found her white and worn, with the stain of secret weeping about her eyes.

  • Denson had ruffled him and worried him a good deal, and ever and again he came back to that discussion.

  • But, in the spring of the next year, he came back; this time, with eight hundred vessels and thirty thousand men.

  • Next day, he came back again, having got hold in the meantime of Lord Say, an unpopular nobleman.

  • King William, fearing he might lose his conquest, came back, and tried to pacify the London people by soft words.

  • When he came back he had a great story to tell about dogs chasing their sheep, and foxes taking their geese.

  • Father said the way would have been to send the note and pay the boy when he came back; but Shelley said Mr. Paget would have been gone before the boy got back, so father saw that wouldn't have been the way, in such a case.

  • The winters he was away at college left me lonely, and when he came back for a vacation I was too happy for words.

  • She rose, went to the window, came back to the table, stood there a moment, her eyes fixed on something far away.

  • When he had hat and coat and stick in hand, and had kissed her good-by and reached the door and opened it, he came back again, as is the way of bridegrooms.

  • The only reason why I can mind the man is that he came back here to the next year's fair, and told me quite private-like that if a woman ever asked for him I was to say he had gone to--where?

  • He came back a few steps, Donald Farfrae opening the window further.

  • He came back at night weary and unsuccessful.

  • As we know, he came back by the side gate.

  • Well, sir, it was a bit rumpled, certainly, when I came back.

  • Then he came back, preceded by a cloud of smoke.

  • Now, all at once, it came back to him as his own possession; he felt that he could take up books again where he had dropped them, perhaps even with the old rapt, intent zest.

  • While they were planking the ship, it happened that Thorberg had to go home to his farm upon some urgent business; and as he remained there a long time, the ship was planked up on both sides when he came back.

  • Then Thorer turned away; but had not gone far before he came back, and tells his comrades to wait there.

  • The two armies marched against each other, and met, and had a great battle; and it ended in King Gandalf flying, after leaving most of his men dead on the spot, and in that state he came back to his kingdom.

  • When he came back to Finmark, his men found a girl in a Lapland hut, whose equal for beauty they never had seen.

  • So Jim rode back to the drovers' camp with the beer, and when he came back to me he said that the drovers seemed surprised, but they drank good luck to him.

  • But I knew that a beer would settle the business, so I said I'd get the wool up to the station first and think it over, and have a drink when I came back.

  • Then he came back with a decided step and tone.

  • I had gone to Sydney twice since I met Mary, once before we were married, and she forgave me when I came back; and once afterwards.

  • In about twenty minutes he came back, wheeling a case of whisky in a barrow.

  • After half an hour, he came back, so brilliantly transformed, that Bella was obliged to walk round him in ecstatic admiration twenty times, before she could draw her arm through his, and delightedly squeeze it.

  • I went aboard with him (I gave him first what little treat I thought he'd like), and I left him when he had fallen asleep in his berth, and I came back to Mrs Boffin.

  • For when he came back to make intercession for his sister, me and Mrs Boffin were away overlooking a country contract which was to be sifted before carted, and he was come and gone in a single hour.

  • A moment and he came back to resume his seat and read the paper.

  • The intrusion into her room was on a Sunday; on the following Sunday he came back as soon as Etta went out.

  • She could not have explained why it came back or why she fell to puzzling over it as if it held some mysterious meaning.

  • I came back to find out if you and Susie were to be at home this evening.

  • When he came back with a heaping plate of hot biscuits, Sally Lunn and cornbread, she was eating as heartily as any of her neighbors.

  • He came back to town in September to let his partner go away, and Amy stayed on in the country.

  • At one time, he suddenly threw up his office of tribune, and sailed off into Syria to Pompey; and immediately after, with as little reason, came back again.

  • He now, after settling everything in Gaul, came back again, and spent the winter by the Po, in order to carry on the designs he had in hand at Rome.

  • When I came back I destroyed everything I'd painted.

  • Josiah Graves, churchwarden and manager of the bank, came back to dinner at the vicarage after the funeral.

  • This was only used by visitors and on Sundays, and on special occasions, as when the Vicar went up to London or came back.

  • I say, why have you been so rotten since I came back?

  • It would be pleasant to end up his school-days with glory and then go to Oxford: in a flash there appeared before him the life which he had heard described from boys who came back to play in the O.

  • Pursuing this resolve to make his task complete, he came back to the first house and looked at his fire.

  • In an instant all his old vigorous life, all the abounding hope which was such a strong characteristic of his nature, came back to him.

  • Now and then he came back in the thicket and looked down at the faces of the sleeping five from Kentucky.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "came back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowing the; another district; are often; bonny ship; came aboard; came about; came alongside; came around; came away; came before; came down from heaven; came face; came forth; came forth from the; came home; came nearer; came nigh; came not; came round; came they; came unto; good brother; harmonious whole; spent three; well adapted; would thou