How to Use back home in a Sentence

back home

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Definition of back homenext
  • By the time he was deployed, the war was over and he was sent back home.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 2024
  • This much relaxation will send you back home fully grounded and ready for the week ahead.
    — Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 27 May 2024
  • Once traffic continued, the three eventually made their way back home to Chandler.
    — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 20 May 2024
  • He’s talked about doing baseball work back home in Puerto Rico, and not wanting to miss out on too much of his twin sons’ childhood.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2024
  • Netanyahu hopes his visit will reassert his leadership both in the U.S. and back home in Israel.
    — Barak Ravid, Axios, 22 July 2024
  • His son-in-law, who was not on the train with them, helped coordinate the family and get everyone back home later that night, Helmer said.
    — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024
  • Following that summer, many activists started organizations back home or joined other civil rights efforts.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 17 July 2024
  • At 4-2 on Jake DeBrusk’s goal Panthers fans back home had to be getting a tinge anxious, still with half the third period left.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
  • Yet back home, Netanyahu is accused by many Israelis—including the family members of hostages—of sabotaging that deal.
    — Yardena Schwartz, TIME, 24 July 2024
  • Her daughters, Ella (Ramsey), and Jo (Young), put everything on the line to infiltrate the cult and bring their mother back home.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • One of the men lost the roof off his house and another had widespread damage to his own farm back home during Hurricane Beryl — the same storm — the week before, Skovsted said.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 19 July 2024
  • The team would’ve been on a plane back home if not for that golden goal.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 July 2024
  • Our poems are for all the lovers who want to make their way back home.
    — Melania Luisa Marte, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024
  • And then, back home, the Dodgers offense wins in a laugher, 13-2.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Later, back home, Kleinklaus phones the shop and asks how much the urn costs.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
  • The mission aims to put humans on the moon for the first time since 1972 — and bring them back home with a splash.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 May 2023
  • After the shooting, Lopez got in his car and drove back home.
    — Allie Weintraub, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Soon a news flash from back home — and then another — pierced the vibe.
    — Ken Belson, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Kistler says the pelt may make a visit back home to the West Coast in 2025 for a meeting of the Coast Salish.
    — Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The shoot was one of Rema’s first trips back home since his quick ascent.
    — Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • There are also the costs of giving birth in Abuja that Aliyu didn't have back home.
    — Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Help the kids back home who don’t see a future in basketball.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2023
  • Cruise on up into the Rocky Mountains, make friends with the bighorn sheep, then thunder across the Plains on your way back home.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 29 May 2023
  • But back home, Americans saw the raid as a huge success.
    — Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That close call prompted Nguyen and his wife to move back home to be near family.
    — Brittanie Shey, Chron, 10 May 2023
  • Sometimes that meant sleeping in a parking lot after his shifts to save the 85-mile trip back home.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Some of the Hondurans killed in the shooting had lived in the U.S. for years, according to their families back home.
    — Juan A. Lozano, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • Every other week, Hunter commuted back home — a 10-hour drive — to work in the oil fields.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • All five boys who ran away since mid-January have been sent back home, the sheriff said.
    — Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Her siblings had already stepped in, three of them living back home.
    — Robert Kolker, New York Times, 20 July 2023

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