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Examples of back arrow in a Sentence
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There are three buttons at the bottom of the screen: a back arrow to take you to the previous screen, a circle to take you to the home screen, and a square for switching between or closing open apps.
—PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
Tap the back arrow in the upper left-hand corner of the screen to exit.
—Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
Since then, Google has been gradually adding new features to Android 14, like a new back arrow that blends with your background, passkey support, improved battery life, and more control over your privacy in your device’s media library.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 8 May 2023
To get back to the standard feed, tap the back arrow in the top left.
—John Kennedy, Popular Science, 24 Jan. 2023
Hit the back arrow on the settings screen and get back to the main Privacy page.
—Washington Post, 15 July 2021
When you’re finished, tap the back arrow and you’re all set.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
When introduced in 2019, once the list of available plans appeared, the only way to return to the drug or pharmacy pages was to click the back arrow.
—Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 11 May 2021
Clicking the browser's back arrow created an endless series of new sites.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2018
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First Known Use
1980, in the meaning defined above
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“Back arrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/back%20arrow. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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