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Example sentences for "ride back"

  • I saw that it wasn't likely to do much damage, so I didn't ride back to tell Billee and the others.

  • As for getting on the trail of the rustlers, we'd have to ride back quite a distance to do that, and it would be dark when we picked it up again.

  • In spite of the pie, cake and other good things set out by Nell and Mrs. Merkel, Bud and his chums decided to ride back to their camp that night.

  • If I find there's no one with her, I'll ride back.

  • Yuh better get yore supper at the hotel,' she says, an' ride back afterwards.

  • I thought perhaps you might be strong enough in a little while to ride back with me to the ranch.

  • But I don't aim to ride back to Stacey just because I know where it is.

  • If he ain't too stiff with rheumatics to ride back.

  • When you can ride, take your cayuse and fan it anywhere--but don't ride back to Sonora.

  • But how about my job if I ride back to Stacey with nothin' to show for the trip but my expense card?

  • Ride back to General Archer," he said, "and tell him that the division of Early and the Stonewall Brigade are coming at once.

  • I'll ride back peaceably to General Lee in the morning, and tell him that I left ten thousand cavalrymen lying lazily on the grass, and ten thousand horses eating their heads off near Brandy Station.

  • Of course, if any force of the enemy threatens you, you'll have to do what seems best, and we'll ride back to General Jackson alone.

  • Ride back to General Stuart, Captain, and tell him that I thank him, and you, too, for your diligence.

  • When he saw the mark, he sent forward two of his men secretly, to ride back to them with another message: that Ludger bade tell the king his land might remain at peace.

  • The horses were led out for Siegmund's men, for they were ready to ride back to the land of the Nibelungs; and their harness was laid on the sumpters.

  • The fiddler answered, "If thou spoilest my strings, my hand will dim thy helmet afore I ride back to Burgundy.

  • Let us ride back to camp and give the alarm," I said.

  • Ride back as quickly as you can, and see the Duke of Cumberland.

  • I turned my horse to ride back, but some more men had posted themselves there.

  • Then the baffled pursuers, one after another, give up discouraged, at length El Cascabel also coming to a stop, and turning to ride back with an air of angry disappointment.

  • Shall he ride back and go round the village, or continue on across it, taking the chances of the treacherous ground?

  • Hasta luego, Colonel; I ride back home to bring them; so doubt not my having them here, and ready for the route soon as your soldiers.

  • The dog was much too slow and deaf, and I only gave him food for the many faithful services he had rendered me: I did not care to ride back, and hence called him closer up to my horse, and continued my journey.

  • If I shot buffaloes not too far from my house, I used to ride back, and at evening drove out with a two-wheeled cart, drawn by mules, to fetch the meat and salt it for the probable event of a siege.

  • During this time we wished to let our cattle graze and recover, as they greatly needed rest; and in the event of our being obliged to ride back to the ridge, we wished to halt here till the next day.

  • When about a score lengths from the edge of the arroyo, he reined up and wheeled round--as if he had suddenly formed the determination to ride back!

  • Neither these nor the protestations of Don Silvio and his sister can prevent their capricious niece from carrying out a resolution she seems suddenly to have formed--which is, to ride back to the Rio Grande.

  • They had no alternative but to ride back to the chapparal, and bivouac among the bushes.

  • Twill be six days since we left Welwyn, and 'twill take four and over, in this weather, for any man to ride back thither.

  • An I lead off these fellows a five days' ride from Fleetwood house, straight north toward Scotland, and then drop them, 'twill take five days for them to ride back.

  • Bottle took this one, upon which to ride back to a suitable spot for watching the road behind.

  • At the bank of the wady he had left some of his men loading the stores on to the horses captured from the Turks, and Rejeb intended to ride back to them, and himself head the convoy to his stronghold.

  • Burnet marshalled the prisoners three on each side, and ordered one of the Arabs to ride back rapidly to Rejeb, and ask him to send or bring up enough horses to convey the stores to his stronghold.

  • Their progress must necessarily be slow, and there was plenty of time to ride back to Rejeb by a circuitous route and lay plans for a successful ambuscade.

  • Then we will decide to ride back to the point from which we started, and will follow the other trail.

  • Come, gentlemen, let us ride back to the halting place, and see if we cannot find out which way the main body have gone.

  • I said I would wait till midday, and then, if they had not turned up by that time, ride back on the cattle tracks to look for them.

  • I'm going to ride back as far as Fort Laramie," Kiddie answered.

  • You c'n ride back to Fort Laramie along with Nick an' conclude the business in proper legal form.

  • But he heard them as they checked their wild onrush and turned to ride back and do their worst.

  • Even if they did they would not see him, and if they saw him it would be madness to ride back--though there was not a man among them who would not have wheeled in his tracks and returned for Buddy in the very face of Colorou and his band.

  • May I ask if you would mount your horses and ride back with me?

  • They sent off word at once to their chief, and we are to be followed by two men; when they have traced us to the place, one is to ride back to some place where a dozen of them will be waiting to attack us on our way back.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ride 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:
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