How to Use back home in a Sentence

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Or, is this episode making a statement that the team is finally back home?
    Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Within 24 hours, that partner was already on a flight back home.
    Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2023
  • What nicknames do your friends and family call you back home?
    Women's Health, 19 June 2023
  • But in the immediate moment, Bossert needed a car to get back home to West Bend.
    Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2023
  • There were too many family members back home, too much that had been lost.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Those were the early years of our immigration, when my mother still kept up with the news back home.
    Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • My favorites back home are humpback grouper, threadfin, and striped mullet.
    Lucas Sin, Bon Appétit, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Not the camping or kayaking that never happened, not my life back home.
    Celeste Moure, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Many stayed only long enough to buy a better piece of land or new machinery back home.
    Max Fraser, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The extent of his stage activity back home is singing karaoke.
    Lars Brandle, Billboard, 14 June 2023
  • Bryan usually finds his way back home within an hour but hasn’t been seen since, deputies said.
    Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Later that night after the game was over, Toby and I arrived back home to find Sonya sobbing.
    Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 14 May 2023
  • Flatt, Debbie and her parents ate pizza that night and then dropped Debbie back home around 8:30.
    Sarah Viren, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2023

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