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Example sentences for "back from"

  • Hence note, that case and release from persecution and affliction cometh not by chance, or by the good moods, or gentle dispositions of men, but the Lord doth hold them back from sin, the Lord restraineth them.

  • I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

  • He must wait till something more definite had been done about the property,--and, above all things, till Sir Thomas should be back from canvassing.

  • I wouldn't go back from my promise if they were to drag me.

  • But she was quite sure of this,--that having once said the word she would never go back from it.

  • When he has once written his name, he cannot go back from it, and there will be comfort in that.

  • It has been written in the book, Sam; and I know that they never go back from that.

  • He knew that he couldn't go back from it now, and had it been possible, would have been most unwilling to give his wife such a triumph.

  • Why, the varmint that tracked me back from here 'twixt dawn and daybreak, to be sure.

  • You may flay me as you will; I shall neither flinch nor go back from my word.

  • So the weather does not put the creeks up and hold Tarleton and Major Gibbs back from us, 'tis a small matter whether the rebels' powder be dry or soaked.

  • These are the servants who, as soon as Thy call reached them, hastened in the direction of Thy mercy and were not kept back from Thee by the changes and chances of this world or by any human limitations.

  • As the evening wore on they heard the crew coming merrily back from Nauplia, but they sat talking late, like friends who have met again.

  • You know even where lies the treasure which, three centuries and more ago, he helped to bury, the countless treasure that an evil fortune held us back from seeking.

  • So much did it soften indeed, that at the last hour he changed his mind and wished to hold me back from going.

  • As he had smiled when he handed me to the pabas, so he smiled when he took me back from them.

  • Back From a Two-years' Sentence Back from a two-years' sentence!

  • Mine orbed image sinks Back from thee, back from thee, As thou art fallen, methinks, Back from me, back from me.

  • But what Shapes Rise up between us in the open space, And thrust me into horror, back from hope!

  • He is back from America at last, it seems, and is an assiduous adorer.

  • She expected Claude Drew to be back from America by now and I heard yesterday from that horrid young friend of his, Algernon Bently, that he has again postponed his return.

  • She is wishing that Claude Drew would come back from America, and she is wanting to write one letter to his ten and finding that she writes five.

  • She always has so many pretty things when she comes back from a visit out there.

  • Halfway across she met Roy coming back from a secret survey of Grannis's camp.

  • We can send her off home when 'tis afternoon, and us back from church.

  • There was naught to hold me back from my fancy.

  • Tis the womenfolk as do keep we back from everything.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "back from" 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:
    about this; back again; back and; back chair; back from; back home; back room; back street; back yard; backed gull; backed shrike; bring the; could bring; elastic fluids; for many; given line; her child; land warfare; obstinate resistance; physical exercise; place where; pound each; severe cases; single atom; tailed sheep; three stitches