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Example sentences for "dates back"

  • Glasgow; dates back to the 12th century as a burgh; industries include thread, cotton cloths, shawl factories, and shipbuilding.

  • Peruvians, the art was chiefly practised among the Egyptians, and the practice of it dates back to 4000 B.

  • Secondly, that it dates back, in all probability, to the time when the ancestors of the races possessing it had not yet separated.

  • The Indians possessed no currency or alphabet, so that it dates back of the red-men.

  • Nothing similar has been found in the hundreds of American mounds that have been opened, so that it dates back of the mound-builders.

  • The probabilities are that the name for bronze, as well as the metal itself, dates back to Plato's island.

  • The school scene on the previous page, in which monkey-headed children are playing school, dates back to the thirteenth century.

  • Much second-hand erudition could be adduced to show that Punch, besides being universal, dates back to remote antiquity.

  • It is now in the thirtieth century of its "run;" and even the modern Italian version dates back to the year 1600.

  • It dates back to 1792, when a Boston ship and a Boston captain first sailed up the river.

  • It dates back to the old mission days; to the two hundred head of cattle which the wise Galvez brought, in 1769, for stocking the three missions projected in Upper California.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dates 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:
    alarm clock; also here; commence operations; dates back; dates from; disturb them; done what; dress suit; even then; hold property; maple leaves; modern state; national pride; old maid; one great; remember hearing; schistosomiasis respiratory; small fire; this genus; this vessel; tropical regions; true lovers; western extremity