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Example sentences for "back"

Lexicographically close words:
bachi; bacillary; bacilli; bacillus; bacio; backache; backbite; backbiting; backboard; backbone
  1. I want to go back to Singapore And ship along the Straits To the bungalow I left upon the strand.

  2. I want to go back and hear the surf Come beating in at night, Like the washing of eternity over the dead.

  3. Sponge that passes, One the Appeaseless e'er will squeeze Back into Lethe's flood--whose lasting Is eternities.

  4. The silver doors swing back And alone with him you hallow The amorous night--whose moon has made Such visions in me start.

  5. I want to go back and mend my heart Beneath the tropic moon, While the tamarind-tree is whispering thoughts of sleep.

  6. And thro its magic doors You seem like a spirit flower, Wandering back from Allah's bourne To seek for some lost boon.

  7. I want to see dawn fare up and day Go down in golden light; I want to go back to Penang!

  8. I want to go back to Singapore And up along the Straits To the bungalow that waits me by the tide.

  9. I want to go back and end my days Some evening when the Cross On the southern sky hangs heavily far and sad.

  10. Athobun tho helagna sang, They raised the holy song, Tho sie eft te hebanuuanga As they back to the Heaven-plains Uundun thurh thin uuolcan.

  11. He lifted up his hand | that back againe did start.

  12. They run (leap) now back (after) to the path, by which they had gone thither.

  13. He talk to him, every one man use of give first the more sweet wine; and when them drink enough end, after back the less sweety wine: but you been cover that more good wine.

  14. The ultimate known origin of many common words sometimes goes back to a great date, and points to extinct languages-- Ancient Nubian (?

  15. This we may prove by taking the eighth syllable and counting back from it.

  16. A few years back the current opinion was against the doctrine that there was much Danish in England.

  17. Back in the bedroom, he lay down again, his body still tense.

  18. His mind is retreating, running back to some other delusions.

  19. He had to get back to town, back to the city, back to where people were.

  20. He threw the big man off balance, dropped heavily on him as he fell back to the ground, glared down into the other's angry brown eyes.

  21. Then the rift screamed by him with a demoniac whine and he sank back onto his bench, gasping as the two cloven halves of the strip clanged back together again.

  22. Down below he heard a door bang, and he froze, his back against the wall.

  23. His only hope was to go for help to the ones he feared only slightly less, the ones who had minds capable of fighting back for him.

  24. He comes back to tell us the truth, and we call him insane.

  25. The bathroom was tiny; he stared in the battered, stained reflector unit, shocked at the red-eyed stubble-faced apparition that stared back at him.

  26. Harry's hand went to his mouth, choking back a scream as the hole moved with incredible rapidity down the center of the strip, swallowing up whole rows of the seats, moving straight toward his own.

  27. You'd better be quick, or you'll be back in the corridor.

  28. Yet he knew now that he dared not go back where he had come from.

  29. He stopped again to force back the tendrils of unreasoning horror that brushed his mind.

  30. Or would you rather sit back and let Harry Scott go the way that Paulus and Wineberg and the others went?

  31. Say, what was the row about just before I came back with that horse?

  32. The fellow who tied the cow to Merry's back stoop!

  33. Professor Skeel, for he was one of the three men in the back room.

  34. Tom, when, after a last successful hunt they were preparing to go back to home and Elmwood Hall.

  35. The animal brushed past the group of boys, fairly pulling loose the improvised leash from Tom's hand and stood in the doorway with bristling hair, lips drawn back from his teeth and showing every appearance of anger.

  36. He had no doubt but what if he cried out for help now, the gag would be put back in his mouth.

  37. He said the dog often stayed out in the woods all night, and came back in the morning.

  38. Jack Fitch, pushing back his chair from the table.

  39. Do you really think he'll lead us back to camp, Tom?

  40. All right," agreed our hero, but as he walked along he was puzzling his brain, trying to think what Professor Skeel's object was in coming back to Elmwood Hall.

  41. He managed to struggle to a sitting position, and to edge over until he was leaning back against the wall.

  42. Morse must have caught him before he went very far, or he wouldn't be back so soon," spoke Bert, waving his hand toward the former Freshman football captain.

  43. The main road led back to the village, where the boys had left the railroad train, and the cross highway connected two towns--Ramsen and Fayetville.

  44. These were the classic expressions of the hilarious poet of a period far back in the vista of ages.

  45. I am coming back with little prospect of pleasure at home, and with a body a little shaken by one or two smart fevers, but a spirit I hope yet unbroken.

  46. Cawthorn must be kept back with the 'Hints.

  47. Remember, I back him against the field, barring Catalepsy and the Elements.

  48. In retracing the happy hours he had known with the friends now lost, all the ardent tenderness of his youth came back upon him.

  49. Keep to thyself thy wither'd bough, Or send it back to Dr.

  50. The ring came from the King and should go back to the King.

  51. To continue protesting her innocence with nothing but his own word and hers to back the assertion was but beating the air; to ask, How shall we save her?

  52. Pushing himself to his feet he would walk the length of the gallery and back again, leaning heavily upon his stick, only to sink once more into his chair and fumble anew with shaking hands at whatever loose end or edge lay nearest.

  53. Granted," said La Mothe, impressed in spite of himself and falling back upon the last resort of baffled argument.

  54. Lifting his hand Louis shaded his eyes yet further, and leaning forward repeated the scrutiny; then he beckoned very gently and lay back upon the pillows.

  55. One arm was flung over his shoulder, the hand holding the boy's hand as he raised it across his breast, and she seemed to draw him back to her so that he half leaned, half lay against her knee.

  56. Yes, sire, but to turn back the blow I must know who aims the blow, whence it comes, where it will strike, and when.

  57. She paused, beating the paper with the back of her hand with a force that lent her words power and meaning, "now he is to hold no communication with the Dauphin!

  58. The poor devil of a La Mothe would naturally not object to the delay, and in any case a prick of the spur would drag back some of the lost minutes.

  59. La Mothe, striking fiercely at the blade as it darted from side to side or sawed back and forth.

  60. Villon had closed the door behind the Dauphin, resting his back against it as before.

  61. Had Beaufoy been a Philip de Commines he would have known that jest with no laughter at its back is more dangerous than a threat.

  62. I never know," Ambrose used to say afterwards, "whether to laugh or cry when I have been away for some time from town, and come back and smell that wonderful old London aroma.

  63. And then he was gazing once more down the glittering railway into the mist; but strength and hope had replaced that deadly sickness of a moment before, and light and joy came back to his eyes.

  64. It was merely an accident, and he resolved to challenge Meyrick to fight and give him back the worst licking he had ever had in his life.

  65. I am reminded, now that I look back upon this great purgation of the soul, of the story that I once read of the Arabic Alchemist.

  66. Pelly took a back somersault and fell with a crash to the floor, where he lay for a moment half stunned.

  67. It brings back to me that afternoon, that hot, choking afternoon of ever so many years ago.

  68. He would sally forth from his den in quest of fresh air on top of an omnibus and stroll peacefully back again rather than struggle for victory with the furious crowd.

  69. In after life he often looked back upon this period when, to all appearance, Lupton was "making a man" of him, and wondered at its strangeness.

  70. I had been for a long walk, nearly to the sea, and as I came back I passed this place and, looking into the pool, there was the glint of the stars in the water.

  71. He fell back into his chair; in a few minutes he had become an old man.

  72. The quiet student had gone back to his place and was again handling his dictionary.

  73. A hungry man may long for his delayed dinner almost with a sense of fury, and yet at the back of his mind he cannot help being consoled by the thought of how wonderfully he will enjoy the soup when it appears at last.

  74. Finally they asked for a rope to tow the yacht to shore, but soon got tired of the work, and paddled back to the land in a great hurry.

  75. On the 3Oth of May, as they were lying at anchor, two small prows came to within half a mile of the ship and then paddled back to shore.

  76. After having inspected the whole place, they went back to the beach, where they found the two prows in which the natives had previously approached the ship.

  77. The two front legs at least must be regular, and the two back legs regular.

  78. Yet she was lively enough to show signs of pleasure when Fred patted her back gently and presented her with a pair of scissors and a pair of worsted gloves.

  79. Fred pulled up when he came to this place, and Grant's pony pulled up when his nose touched the back of Fred's cart.

  80. Mind yourself here," shouted Fred, looking back at Grant, who was almost asleep.

  81. He was a hearty fellow, with a rich deep-toned voice, and a pair of eyes so black and glittering that they seemed to pierce right through you and come out at your back when he looked at you!

  82. The fisherman turns his back on the market, gazes out to sea, and begins to whistle.

  83. And now get back to bed, child, and forget the fellow.

  84. An attempt to go back might be misunderstood and resisted, leading to a renewal of the combat, and surely in vain, for he could not doubt but that the fallen troopers had been finished outright.

  85. Meanwhile he pressed Sir Terence towards the side where the moonlight would strike first, until they were fighting close under the windows of the residential wing, Sir Terence with his back to them, Samoval facing them.

  86. Understanding on their own part the horrible blunder, they had turned even as their leader turned, and they had raced madly back the way they had come, conceiving that he followed.

  87. O'Moy, with his back to the window now, his hands still clasped behind him, looked mockingly at Tremayne and waited.

  88. He put back the pistol, slapped down the lid of the box and replaced it in its drawer.

  89. I believe you," snorted O'Moy, as with his hands behind his back he strode forward into the room.

  90. She drew back and away from him, bewildered and horrified.

  91. A moment," said O'Moy, and rising waved his guest back into his chair, then resumed his own seat.

  92. The president sat back and observed the prisoner with an eye that was officially benign.

  93. Emptying his fourth and final bumper of rich red Douro, Mr. Butler paid his host the compliment of a sigh and pushed back his chair.

  94. Instead of finding her dallying in the moonlight with my secretary," he rallied back between good and ill humour.

  95. As he departed Sir Terence turned and slowly paced back to his desk, leaving the door open.

  96. Well, she did catch the doctor, and came back looking rather jollier.

  97. The old ways we're coming back to, I'm glad to say, after putting them aside for so long that people had almost forgotten they were the really old original ones.

  98. Linny, run back and tell them to heat some milk, and then Linny and I will wrap you up and take you home.

  99. So mums asked Mrs. Parsley to tell me where I could go without any fear of losing my way, or coming back too late.

  100. Then we went straight back to the nursery, and in a minute or two the three others came in.

  101. Barstow will be back immediately, no doubt?

  102. I don't think your mother would agree to give you, even to get back her brooch!

  103. But after a moment Serry got back her coolness.

  104. It was one of those houses that have the dining-room at the back and the library to the front, you know, and the door was the library door.

  105. Mother hadn't counted on his coming at all till after she'd got back from Ventnor with Hebe, and by then she thought if Hebe was well enough to be with the rest of us at Mossmoor, she herself would be free to devote herself to gran.

  106. Then to add to all the fuss, gran took it into his head to come back all of a sudden.

  107. And Mrs. Parsley had tea set out all ready; she wasn't one of those horrid landladies who won't give anything at the first start for fear they should possibly not be paid back for it.

  108. The favourite subjects are single flowers and plants, with their names on the back of the piece.

  109. When civil war tears the vitals of a Republic, let it look back and see if it has not been guilty of injustices; and if it has, let it humble itself in the dust!

  110. Even Blue Masonry cannot trace back its authentic history, with its present Degrees, further than the year 1700, if so far.

  111. In their most characteristic elements, they go back to the time of the exile.

  112. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him.

  113. Soul gives back to each sphere through which it passes in returning--, 440-u.

  114. These at once lead us back to the Kabala.

  115. The Sun appeared emerging from the back of Taurus.

  116. In all that "void" space are the Infinite Forces of God, acting in an infinite variety of directions, back and forth, and never for an instant inactive.

  117. They went back to the remotest antiquity among the Greeks, and were attributed by some to Bakchos himself, and by others to Orpheus.

  118. The Divine Spirit, after having brought back the Primitive Man to the Empire of Light, raises above the world that part of the Celestial Soul that remained unaffected by being mingled with the Empire of Darkness.

  119. Male and Female--Brown above, with white line over the eye, and the back irregularly and faintly streaked with white.

  120. This is usually uttered toward evening, when the bird springs several feet into the air, hovers for a second, and then drops back to the bushes.

  121. In winter: Upper parts olive-brown, streaked with black; the yellow spot on lower back the only yellow mark remaining.

  122. This exquisite little creature of perpetual summer (though to find it it must travel back and forth between two continents) comes out of the south with the golden days of spring.

  123. He says he has often seen them passing a worm from one to another down a whole row of beaks and back again before it was finally eaten.

  124. Back and wings dusky brown, with pale-buff shoulder-bars and edges of coverts.

  125. Head blackish; rust-colored feathers, with small black spots on back of the neck; an orange mark before the eye.

  126. A white stripe along the summit of the head and back of the neck, edged with black.

  127. On back the black feathers, with iridescence of green, and bronze, are tipped with brown, as are some of the tail and wing feathers.

  128. Wings, tail, and lower back with brownish wash, most prominent in autumn plumage.

  129. They will sit quietly and see you build a log trap and bait it, and then, almost before your back is turned, you hear their hateful ca-ca-ca!

  130. To prevent this, it is a good plan to hold a white cloth on one side of the statue at a little distance to reflect back the sun's rays and cause a faint illumination of the parts which would otherwise be lost in shadow.

  131. Go back to bed, and don't be silly," was his parting injunction as he opened the door.

  132. Nina flushed angrily, but Rosemary was trying to pull Fannie back on the bank and paid no further attention to her.

  133. Rosemary stabbed her long needles into her half-finished sweater and hung her knitting bag on the back of her chair.

  134. She slipped down from the chair and walked around back of the desk.

  135. Rosemary came rushing down, followed by Aunt Trudy who added her cries to the child's when she saw her doubled up on the floor, rocking back and forth and calling for Rosemary.

  136. One reason that Rosemary practised so steadily through the warm weather in spite of discouragement was her determination to surprise her mother by her improvement when that dear lady came back to them.

  137. Elsie Mears sits in back of me; she wasn't promoted.

  138. I have a feeling that Sarah and Shirley will get into some mischief, the minute my back is turned," declared the good lady.

  139. She had wondered several times about the ring money, but the doctor had made no motion to give her back the bank.

  140. He handed her the pump and the heel and the motorman and conductor went back to their trolley.

  141. And when I came back the ring was gone off my finger and we hunted everywhere and we couldn't find it.

  142. Then someone folded back one of the heavy oak doors and they found themselves in a large, bare room.

  143. Go back to bed, and I'll tell you all about the fire in the morning.

  144. A small pipe opening just inside the shell of the cylinder is brought back to near the center, where it rises through a sort of neck and opens into an exterior casing.

  145. These fall slowly back through the column and collect at the bottom of the tank, to be cleared out when needful.

  146. Way back in 1634, a company of Catholic pilgrims came to America to found a colony where their religion would not be interfered with.

  147. Towards the southwest, between us and the Charles, lies Back Bay, once tidewater but now filled in and made into land.

  148. In 1800, however, Spain cedes Louisiana back to France, and once more New Orleans has a French commissioner and is a French possession.

  149. The Back Bay, as its name suggests, was originally the Back Cove, and where these houses now stand, the waves once danced in glee.

  150. But there are other buildings in the Back Bay which rival those on Copley Square.

  151. Its location at the head of Lake Michigan, its fine harbor, the resources of the rich back country, all combined to make it the chief commercial center of the Middle West.

  152. If so, let us go to the broad streets and beautiful parks of the Back Bay, the abode of the wealthy.

  153. There was no flour, and for two months Nathaniel Doan's boy was the only person strong enough to go to the house of one James Kingsbury, on the highlands back of the town, for corn.

  154. It grew prosperous as the country back of it became more populated, and as this population became richer and able to buy larger amounts and more expensive goods, Detroit reaped the advantage.

  155. In the residence section there are thousands of beautiful homes, set well back from broad streets and surrounded by wide lawns and gardens.

  156. This industry goes back to Revolutionary times, when the first yard of carpet woven in the United States came from a Philadelphia loom.

  157. Falling back to Detroit, Hull was attacked, and surrendered to the British after a half-hearted resistance.

  158. Slowly I struggled back to consciousness, only to find myself stretched at full length upon a heap of mouldy straw, with a black, impenetrable darkness around me.

  159. Go back to Mademoiselle as quickly as possible.

  160. Scarcely had we done this, however, than he fell forward with a crash upon the bare floor, the blood at the same time gushing out afresh from the wound at the back of the head, and forming a small pool.

  161. He seemed inclined to walk back with me, but seeing his intention I called a cab and bade the driver hurry to the hotel.

  162. In a moment the remembrance of that mysterious encounter in Drury Lane came vividly back to me.

  163. Leaning back in his chair he watched the smoke from his cigarette curl upwards.

  164. Suddenly I made up my mind to take it, so creeping back to the drawing-room I opened the bag, abstracted the contents, and replaced it again.

  165. Sinking back into a chair and smoking my pipe, I calmly reviewed the situation.

  166. I felt a strange morbid yielding to a superstitious feeling that I could not shake off, and sat as one in a dream, until the Court rose and I was sent back to my cell.

  167. Hurrying back I did this, and turned out sundry valuables from my pocket-book.

  168. Again peeping from my place of concealment, I saw my wife and her companion were moving onward; indeed I was compelled to draw back quickly, for she passed so close that I could touch her.

  169. I cried, excitedly, for the mention of it brought back terrible memories.

  170. To seize them convulsively was the work of an instant; but, quick as thought, I had drawn back and thrown myself on my side.

  171. Just then the front door opened and closed noiselessly, and as I drew back into the shadow a man passed me so closely that I could touch him; and after glancing anxiously up and down the street, walked hurriedly away.

  172. Lying on her back upon the carpet, with her arms outstretched above her head, was a tall and undeniably beautiful woman of about thirty years of age.

  173. Mrs. Cannon took Una aside and told her that she thought Mr. Starr and Miss Vincent must have walked down to the village together that afternoon, as she had distinctly seen them coming back up the road.

  174. The individual, analyzed sounds again blended in one insistent noise of hurry which assailed Una's conscience, summoned her back to her work.

  175. Every time she lifted the receiver from its hook she thrust it back and mentally apologized to the operator.

  176. She was not vastly different from a young lady just back in Panama from a term in the normal school, with new lights derived from a gentlemanly young English teacher with poetic interests and a curly mustache.

  177. Gently arbitrary, dearer than ever to Una in her helpless longing for kindly neighbors and the familiar places, Mrs. Golden went on hoping that she could persuade Una to go back to Panama.

  178. She reminded herself constantly that she had enjoyed some of the parties with him--theater and a late supper, with a couple just back from South America.

  179. The old, slow familiar pain of congestion in the back of her neck came back.

  180. They had picked up two summer men, and Mrs. Lawrence had so often gone off on picnics with her man that Una had become uneasy, felt soiled, and come back to the city early.

  181. Care must be taken that the light shall travel back and forth over the miles of distance sb and bs undispersed.

  182. Really, we feel ourselves set back a thousand years into the dull cloister-cells of the Middle Ages.

  183. The history of physics furnishes numerous examples of this impulse in almost all fields, and pretty examples of it may be traced back to the nursery.

  184. If the eyes be covered with asphalt varnish, and the auditive sacs removed, the crustaceans lose their sense of direction utterly, tumble head over heels, lie on their side or their back indifferently.

  185. But the student of the theory of knowledge, like the geologist and the astronomer, must be permitted to reason back from the forms which are created before his eyes to others which he finds ready made for him.

  186. His process also can be reversed by the expenditure of the same amount of work, and the heat again brought back to its original temperature level.

  187. My terror at the accident brings me back to my senses.

  188. Torricelli carries the principle back to the properties of the centre of gravity.

  189. I shall not take you as far back as the stone age, although we possess sketches from this epoch which show very original ideas of perspective.

  190. This transferred portion can, upon the reversal of the process, with the same expenditure of work, again be brought back to the level T₁.

  191. But that quest brought back all the difficulties that we had overcome by the principle itself.

  192. Back de red, I say; back de red dis time," whispered he in Dalton's ear.

  193. And he pushed through the crowd and hastened back to the little inn.

  194. It is for you to order him back to the depths he came from.

  195. Thence I go to Rome; but within a fortnight I shall be back in Florence, where I hope to hear from you.

  196. Grounsell crushed it convulsively in his palm, and handed the note back to Onslow, without a word.

  197. I must be satisfied with this one, then," said Dalton, "till I go back for money.

  198. The bystanders all fell back at the same instant, and now he remained isolated in the midst of that crowded scene, every eye bent upon him.

  199. Men said he had lost his head, gone back to the everlasting "No," and mistaken swearing all round for political philosophy.

  200. Such limited union as was granted to her married life had only soured the mocking-bird spirit of the child that derided her grandfather's accent on occasion of his bringing her back from a drive by another route to "varry the shane.

  201. It was at Dumfries in 1841, where she had brought Jane down from Templand to meet and accompany him back to the south.

  202. Back in Chelsea, he was harassed by heaps of letters, most of which, we are told, he answered, and spent a large portion of his time and means in charities.

  203. He that would govern you well would probably surprise you much, my friend--laying a hearty horse-whip over that back of yours.

  204. The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter and gasping for air.

  205. Looking back on the Mariposa Whirlwind, I can never feel that it was a failure.

  206. This then was the exact situation when Billy, the desk clerk, entered the back bar with the telegram in his hand.

  207. And even then nobody knew what it was, and it was not till the seventeenth day that Mr. Smith, in the privacy of the back bar, broke the silence and explained.

  208. So Mr. Smith got back his own money, and the crowd began eating into the benefactions, and it got more and more complicated whether to hold another lunch in the hope of breaking even, or to stop the campaign.

  209. Now that it is all over, we can look back at it without heat or passion.

  210. Don't think of running back to Smith's Hotel for the sandwiches.

  211. His appearance, to the untrained eye, was merely that of an extremely stout hotelkeeper walking from the rotunda to the back bar.

  212. And Jeff went back to the shop so quiet--have you ever seen an animal that is stricken through, how quiet it seems to move?

  213. And why was it that Mr. Smith wouldn't pay Billy, the desk clerk, his back wages when he wanted to put it into Cuba?

  214. Ever so many times you planned that just as soon as the rush and strain of business eased up a little, you would take the train and go back to the little town to see what it was like now, and if things had changed much since your day.

  215. Dyke wants to know if I'll come in for a cup of tea, or ride back with Jerry.

  216. All I know about maw is that she was one of three, and that I was born in the back room of a Denver dance hall.

  217. But Beany throws back his head and lets out the first real laugh he's indulged in for over a year.

  218. I forgot just what it was Bob shot over; but after standin' her jabs for quite some time without gettin' real personal he comes back with some stage whisper remark that cut in deep.

  219. And she'd liked a hat such as that one we saw back there; that is, if it's the right kind.

  220. Nearly all the really great men of literature," comes back Harold as prompt as if he was speakin' a piece, "have begun their careers by writing verse.

  221. I, battin' my head for some come-back that would fit.

  222. Now I'm going to give the drum major a view of my back hair.

  223. And when I get back to South Forks, the first thing I do will be to carry it up on the knoll, box and all, and leave it there.

  224. You just tell him to trot back to it, that's all.


  225. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    about; acknowledgment; advance; advocate; affirm; aft; after; afterpart; again; ago; alveolar; alveolus; ante; apex; arena; arm; around; arrested; ascend; ascending; aside; assimilated; assure; astern; attest; authenticate; away; axial; back; backbone; backdrop; background; backing; backward; backwater; backwoods; bandeau; bear; beard; bearer; behind; behindhand; belated; belly; bestride; bet; bevel; bibliography; blade; blocked; board; body; bolster; bond; boost; brace; bracer; bracket; breech; broad; budge; buttress; call; cane; cap; capital; capitalize; carrier; carry; case; catchword; central; cerebral; certify; cervix; champion; change; circle; climb; close; colophon; commend; companion; confirm; consonant; contents; corroborate; corset; countenance; counter; counterclockwise; cover; cradle; crook; crutch; cushion; dedication; defend; delayed; dental; descend; descending; distance; document; dorsal; downward; drifting; due; early; ebb; elect; endorse; endow; ensure; errata; espouse; face; fade; favor; field; finance; flat; flow; flowing; fluent; flying; flyleaf; folio; follow; font; fortify; forward; fro; front; fulcrum; fund; further; gamble; get; girdle; glide; glottal; going; groove; ground; grubstake; guarantee; guaranty; guttural; guy; gyrate; hard; hazard; head; heavy; heel; help; high; hind; hinder; hindmost; hinterland; hold; imprint; index; indorse; inscription; insure; introduction; jammed; justify; labial; larynx; late; lateral; lax; lay; leaf; letter; ligature; light; lingual; lips; liquid; locale; loin; low; mainstay; maintain; makeup; mast; mature; mid; mount; mounting; move; muted; narrow; nasal; neck; nick; nominate; nurture; obstructed; open; outlandish; outstanding; overdue; owing; page; palatal; palate; parlay; parts; pass; passing; patronize; pay; pharyngeal; pharynx; phonetic; phonic; pica; pile; pillow; pitched; play; plug; plump; plunge; plunging; point; poise; posterior; postern; preface; print; probate; progress; progressive; promote; prop; prove; puff; punt; ratify; rear; rearward; recede; receivable; recommend; recto; redeemable; reflex; refluent; regress; regressive; reinforce; reinforcement; remote; rest; retarded; retract; retreat; retroactive; retrograde; retrogressive; retrospective; reverse; reversed; revert; ridge; rigging; rise; rising; rotary; rotate; round; rounded; run; running; rushing; sanction; scene; script; second; secure; see; setting; shank; shift; ship; shore; shoulder; shroud; sideward; sign; signature; since; sink; sinking; slow; soar; soaring; soft; sonant; spin; spine; sponsor; staff; stage; stake; stamp; stand; stave; stay; stem; stern; stick; stiffen; stir; stopped; stream; streaming; strengthen; strengthener; stressed; strong; subside; subsidize; substantiate; subtitle; support; supporter; surd; sustain; sustainer; syllabic; sylvan; tail; tardy; teeth; tense; text; theater; thick; throaty; tighten; tip; title; tonal; tongue; tonic; tout; trail; travel; type; unaccented; underlie; underwrite; unpaid; unready; unsettled; unstressed; untimely; uphold; upholder; upward; validate; verify; verso; virgin; voiced; voiceless; vote; vowel; wager; wane; warrant; waste; weak; whirl; wide; wild; woodland


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    back again; back and; back before; back chair; back door; back from; back here; back home; back pressure; back room; back street; back yard; backed chair; backed chairs; backed gull; backed shrike; backed thrush; backward glance