How to Use back button in a Sentence

back button

noun
  • The rest of the time, the back button appears and works like normal.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
  • The back button is replaced with swipes up from the left and right bottom corners of the screen.
    Vlad Savov, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2018
  • Please hit the back button on your browser or return to the homepage.
    Harpers Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The current build of Android P shows the old back button design, which is just an outline.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
  • The blue color scheme indicates that the phone is running the Pixel theme, so the back button should be solid white.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The case is circular, but four slight corners give it a phantom square shape, with home and back buttons on its right edge.
    Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2018
  • Finish it off with a casual jacket and a laid-back button up.
    Nicola Fumo, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2019
  • There’ll be a back button, but only when an app can actually use it.
    Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 9 May 2018
  • The home button was a pill shape instead of a circle, the back button used an older design, and the recent apps button was missing.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2018
  • On the right side is a back button and a home button, used for navigating and interacting with the watch, and a speaker grille is on the left side of the round housing.
    Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 27 Sep. 2019
  • In February, leaked software code predicted the demise of the back button on the latest version of Google's Android smartphone.
    Vanessa Chang, WIRED, 10 July 2019
  • But to do that, Google had to rethink Android’s traditional back button.
    Chris Welch, The Verge, 3 July 2019
  • Now, with Android 10, that back button has been replaced with a side-swipe gesture, which is sometimes confusing.
    Wired, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Garmin also integrated a physical home/back button below the screen, where a haptic one used to sit.
    Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
  • If you’re used to stock Android phones, you’re probably also thrown off by the button order along the bottom—Samsung has always put the back button on the opposite side as Google.
    Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 29 June 2020
  • The remote has five buttons: the menu button (which usually ends up working like a back button), a play/pause toggle, a Siri button, an up-and-down volume control, and the TV button.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
  • The Car Thing is fairly simple: an oversize knob allows a user to scroll through content and select songs, while a single button below it acts as a back button.
    Colin Beresford, Car and Driver, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The Watch4 replaces the Watch Active line with a more minimalistic and simple touch screen interface and two buttons, one home button, and one back button.
    Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Once each back button is assigned an input, the accessory behaves like a native extension of the controller, so there’s no additional friction when using the gamepad with a PC.
    Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 9 June 2020
  • So developers can disable back next to those areas to ensure the back button isn’t accidentally triggered.
    Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Other Redditors mentioned the flexibility to switch manufacturers year-to-year, the universal back button, a genuine choice in web browsers, and familiarity with the OS.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Microsoft is using shadow effects across Fluent Design, alongside modernizing context menus and implementing consistent back button controls in apps.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 9 May 2018

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