turn back
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.24 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To return to a previous state of being.
Example Sentences
- "Realising he had forgotten his briefcase, he turned back and re-entered the office."
- "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."
- "The barrage of machine-gun fire turned back the encroaching soldiers."
- "Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases."
- "He stopped drinking for a couple of years, but now he has turned back to his old ways."
- "Once we take this decision, there's no turning back."