How to Use back home in a Sentence

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  • By the time he was deployed, the war was over and he was sent back home.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 23 May 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
  • Lin's fans back home in Taiwan had to stay up well past 3:30 a.m. to see her fight.
    Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 7 Aug. 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
  • At the same time, there were some family issues back home in D.C.
    Michael J. West, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 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
  • On the field, the Orioles are back home after going 3-3 in their first two series to open the campaign.
    Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 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
  • This much relaxation will send you back home fully grounded and ready for the week ahead.
    Amber Turpin, The Mercury News, 27 May 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
  • The two went to the emergency room, where doctors were unable to diagnose Bunch and sent him back home.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Flay isn't the only celebrity chef who has contemplated having his adult child move back home.
    Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2024

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