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Example sentences for "moved back"

  • He moved back a step, steadying himself with one hand on an alder.

  • He moved back a few yards to the trees, and found a dry place for his blanket, under the spreading boughs of a fir.

  • He moved back impetuously, and, giving himself short headway, took the crevasse in a leap.

  • With this object we moved back on February 20th, to Ivergny, where we spent the first few days refitting and reorganising.

  • On March 14th, we moved back to Gommecourt, where we were finally relieved by the 4th Leicesters three days later.

  • On relief by Canadians, moved back to Vaudricourt.

  • We moved back to the village of Ameca Ameca, some six miles, and stopped again for the night.

  • Some time after midnight, growing restive under the storm and the continuous pain, I moved back to the log-house under the bank.

  • As no troops came up we moved back a mile or more until we met the head of the column just going into bivouac on the road.

  • Q is merely a pin wherewith to lift P and enable M to be moved back, when putting in a new rod for the work; K is operated by a link from U to V, the handle for moving this link being shown at W in the general view.

  • Furthermore, the tailstock has to be moved back in line with the live spindle axis for turning parallel again, and this is a troublesome matter, especially when the work is long.

  • As the tool is moved up to cut, by the same operation the gauge is moved back out of contact with the end.

  • At night we moved back again to our old position below the city, where we remained during the night and all the next day.

  • December 15th tents were struck soon after breakfast, and about eleven o'clock we moved back a few hundred rods and formed in line of battle.

  • We moved back to the first line of breastworks we had built, not a little angry at being obliged to build intrenchments for the Second New York.

  • To our great surprise, the next day, March 2d, we moved back to Mossy Creek.

  • After a few days in the dust of this plain, we moved back in two marches to our old area near the coast.

  • Next day (12th September) we moved back to Templeux la Fosse, with Battalion H.

  • To turn the taper shown, the tool T would be moved back a distance x (assuming that an attachment is used) while traversing the length l.

  • The lathe spindle is then reversed and as the turret is moved back by hand, pin f comes around and enters notch g, thus holding the die stationary; the die then backs off from the threaded end.

  • When making such a test, the tool is, of course, moved back out of the way.

  • On the 21st moved back to our old position on Cedar Creek.

  • Remained here until October 6th, when we moved back to New Market, and on the 9th arrived at Woodstock.

  • Also Lorenza Brodie, and John Brodie and their families moved back.

  • I liked 'im an' we got married an' moved back here to my folks.

  • On December 20th we moved back to the town of Bruay, where we were to stay till after the New Year.

  • On Friday the 16th of August our Division left Beaufort and moved back to billets at Le Quesnel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "moved 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:
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