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Example sentences for "started back"

  • Early here learned that I had been with Sheridan and, supposing there was some movement on foot, started back as soon as he got the information.

  • I hope they will be ready to start by the 7th, and that Bragg will not have started back by that time.

  • During the night of the 20th we started back, the wind blowing strong, Admiral Dahlgren ordered the pilot of the Harvest Moon to run into Tybee, and to work his way through to Wassaw Sound and the Ogeechee River by the Romney Marshes.

  • We started back by the most direct route, reached Memphis by noon of December 12th, and began immediately the preparations for the Vicksburg movement.

  • I started back so violently that how I escaped falling into the river I do not know to this day.

  • So wholly unexpected was this apparition that I started back.

  • I started back appalled as Smith caught my arm.

  • I pressed myself closely into the niche, and against the statue; but I started back in alarm, feeling a return of my pressure, as if the statue had come to life.

  • He started back a step or two, and his nose at once drew in to its ordinary dimensions.

  • Bosswinkel, who was just coming up, started back in much alarm as this school-chum of his came bumping into his arms.

  • However, he started back, and after running for perhaps a hundred yards I saw him almost turn a somersault.

  • He and I started back, and to get back we had to pass just at the head of these Yankees.

  • We started back in a hurry, and when the Georgia picket line saw us coming back as hard as we could run they thought the Yankees were right in behind us, and they broke.

  • Again he started back, 'afraid of that which was high,' for the lowly valley was yet at a great height above the diminished waves.

  • But he started back in such haste that he fell against the side of his bed.

  • When, returning from his fourth visit, he opened the door between the gardens, he started back in dismay, for there stood the beautiful lady.

  • Beside it was another portrait by the same artist; and I started back in amazement at the resemblance.

  • He started back in horror as he did so, and called out, "He is dead!

  • The next day I started back to rejoin Stuart, who was near Fredericksburg.

  • I did not have over 50 men with me, some having gone back with the prisoners and others having gone on ahead, when we started back, not anticipating any pursuit.

  • After taking a short rest from the fatigue of his night march, he started back to Fairfax with the battalion of graybeards he had taken prisoners, riding bareback with blind bridles on broken-down plow-horses.

  • I saw the arm of the latter fall as if paralyzed, and he started back, but disdained to fly upon the first alarm.

  • The most gloomy time of my life, I think, was from that eve until we started back to Va.

  • I looked and saw that our men had gotten some distance back toward our breastworks, so we started back in double quick time, I’ll tell you.

  • The enemy was pressing harder, of course, and just as we started back, after our breastworks had caught on fire, Chas.

  • I started back to Fredericksburg, where my company was stationed.

  • Schofield was with me, and the plan of the movement against Wilmington fully determined before we started back; hence the absence of more detailed instructions to him.

  • The next day I started back to my old camp at Salt River bridge.

  • It did not accomplish the desired result, and Ross, with his fleet, started back.

  • He started back by the Isthmus route and was sick all the way.

  • They formed line rapidly and we started back to our boats, with the men deployed as skirmishers as they had been on entering camp.

  • But he had scarcely marked the paper when he started back, in a panic.

  • He started back as his eyes met those of Jonas, standing in an angle of the wall, and staring at him.

  • Seeing a gentleman and lady before him, he started back in as much confusion as a good man with a crystal conscience might betray in mere surprise.

  • Thure, who had hurried up with Rex, started back, as the man's face came into view.

  • The moment Thure looked into his face he started back in horror.

  • He started back with an expression of anger.

  • As he dropped his eyes from aloft he started back with a slight cry of fear and surprise.

  • He started back in eager surprise, and then cast another glance of triumph at the consul as he said: "Bring him forward.

  • Before supper I went for a walk along the Barrier with Scott, and the next day we started back.

  • When we started back I had a feeling that things were going to change for the better, and this day I had a distinct idea that we were to have one more bad experience and that after that we could hope for better things.

  • We started back on our tracks and almost immediately I lost my footing and rolled down a slope into a crevasse.

  • Sledge tracks were found leading on to the sea-ice: we started back in doubt.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "started 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:
    active voice; active work; another planet; daily bread; devolved upon; for which; girl reaches; gold brick; good look; heavenly grace; instant later; more liable; operative commonwealth; other device; private citizens; she wants; started again; started back; started early; started forward; started from; started off; started out; varying shades; voice from; would understand