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Example sentences for "dating back"

  • Among the emigrants scattered here and there was occasionally found a branch of a "down country" family of some pretensions, dating back to services in the Revolution, to old wealth, or official position.

  • The library proper contains some eleven thousand volumes, dating back to the very dawn of the discovery of the art of printing.

  • The library contains six thousand volumes, a number of them very rare, dating back to 1482.

  • The Post Office, at the foot of Broad street, is a venerable structure, dating back to the colonial period, the original material for its construction having being brought from England in 1761.

  • This is a spacious edifice with altars all round, and is one of the grand churches in Rome, dating back a long way, and historically celebrated.

  • Nowhere, indeed, on our soil are to be found ivied ruins, dating back to doomsday book, moated castle, or mediaeval tower.

  • In the market-place also stands the Groote Kerk, an imposing and lofty structure, dating back to the end of the fifteenth century, with its tower of two hundred and fifty-five feet adding grace and beauty to the edifice.

  • In the east window, over St. Andrew's Chapel in the south transept, is to be seen some of the best glass now to be found in the cathedral, dating back to about 1330.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dating 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:
    and went; appointed commissioner; clear type; cold roast; consanguineous marriages; dating back; dating from; even keel; father told; fresh horse; gave each; great statesman; great way; has already been remarked; know where; personal pronouns; play called; prayer and; public speech; representing the; said county; tubercle bacilli; universal history