How to Use comeback in a Sentence

comeback

1 of 2 noun

• The team mounted a comeback in the second half of the season.
• The team was trailing after the first half, but they made a comeback and won in the second half.
• The species was nearly extinct but is now making a comeback.
• Short skirts were out of fashion for many years, but now they're making a comeback.
• The new-look top of the Reds’ lineup sparked the comeback.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 May 2023
• What was once big in the '70s seems to have made a comeback in recent years.
  — Georgie Peru, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2024
• The stakes are higher, and the comeback seems more daunting.
  — Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2024
• Why: Fraser makes for a good comeback story, but not the best one of the night.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Mar. 2023
• Smith is seeking to make a comeback to the role as mayor.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2024
• If there was a comeback player of the year award in the NHL, Drouin would be a top contender.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 18 May 2024
• Of all the ’90s fashion that has made a comeback, nail art is my favorite.
  — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 20 Oct. 2023
• Zach Neto scored on a wild pitch in the 10th inning to complete the comeback.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• The sporty, chic style started making a comeback a few years ago.
  — Jennifer Vermeer, Travel + Leisure, 30 Sep. 2024
• Now Nobuo Fukuda is ready for a comeback Reach the reporter at [e-mail].
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 26 May 2023
• That began to change in the 1970s, as breastfeeding made a comeback.
  — Jessica Silver-Greenberg, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
• But the 30-year-old has been training in Houston and appears ready for a comeback.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 June 2023
• Chelsea Handler could make a comeback to late night TV.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
• Reds third baseman Nick Senzel thought back to the other comebacks that the Reds have made in 2023.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 28 May 2023
• Over the past year, bridal fashion trends have made a glamorous comeback.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 18 Apr. 2023
• And now, one of the most popular brands from the decade is also making a comeback.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
• In 2023, the store had a comeback, opening a flagship store in New Jersey.
  — Anna Halkidis, Parents, 22 Oct. 2024
• This Year Thanks to the likes of Rihanna, the honey-blonde hue is making a comeback.
  — Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 16 Feb. 2024
• This weekend, whip up a big batch of comeback sauce for your party food spread.
  — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2024
• Donovan Peoples-Jones will run the deep comeback for the third level.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 13 Sep. 2023
• The sport has made a comeback in the District since then, but the game is 10-pin, the bruising older brother of duckpins.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 10 June 2023
• In the film, BJ heads there for a comeback gig at the venue to then make a life-affirming decision.
  — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
• The crowd pounded on the tables and screamed, as the second half kicked off, many hopeful that Iowa would make a comeback.
  — Katie C. Reilly, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Marty Supreme marks a comeback to movies for Paltrow, who last appeared on the big screen in 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• The set will likely continue to stream and sell well for months, if not years, to come, and one of the most popular tracks from the project even manages a comeback this frame.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
• But the animal print has proven its permanence and is now making a comeback thousands of years later.
  — Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2024

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come back

2 of 2 verb

• Dearman came back again later that night armed with an ax, busting into the home through the locked sliding glass doors, court records say.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2024
• In its pages, an elephant keeps coming back to the place where its closest companion died, like a widow making a weekly trip to her husband’s grave.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• Glenn Close plays the conniving mom who comes back into the siblings' lives and Brendan Fraser chews all the scenery as a corrupt cop.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
• In a separate conversation with People, the Ferrari star expanded a bit more on the chances of him coming back after not being in an installment since the third film.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2024
• Meanwhile, Skye is preparing to come back from a year out of the spotlight following a near-fatal car crash in which her actor boyfriend Paul (Ray Nicholson) was killed.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2024
• But Team Elite came back, took the lead, and won the game.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN, 12 July 2024
• Many are turned away and told to come back the next day.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi, ajc, 24 Feb. 2023
• What made this the right time to come back to the States for the first time in two decades?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Dec. 2023
• And the Thorns were able to build out of the back and score two goals to come back and win.
  — oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• But the catch is, the cringe is what keeps him coming back.
  — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2024
• And that's how Bear Bear came back to us for the second time.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 1 July 2024
• Reed kept him on the project, asking him to come back for Ant-Man and the Wasp.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
• Terry Crews will also come back to the stage as the show's host.
  — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 31 Mar. 2023
• Woodland had to up the ante when Head came back to the rec center to work out.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
• And will what happened in the outback come back to haunt them?
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 24 Aug. 2023
• The cancer might come back in three years, five years, maybe 10 years.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• All have pleaded for the studios and guilds to come back to the table.
  — Natasha Chen, CNN, 22 July 2023
• And even David Marks came back and was part of the fold, which is fantastic.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
• But the skies cleared a few hours later and people came back.
  — Tom Daykin, Journal Sentinel, 19 June 2024
• But then to be able to come back to what was your home and deliver.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 3 Aug. 2023
• But the same can’t be said for coming back for Marvel reshoots.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• Someone gave me a roll or bread and said take three laps around the resort and come back.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 27 Jan. 2023
• Carter, who came back from elbow surgery, pitched in his third game.
  — Bob Holt, arkansasonline.com, 27 Mar. 2024
• When Gil-galad puts on his ring, the dying tree comes back to life.
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 12 Sep. 2024
• If the delay had lasted that long, Williams wouldn’t have come back out.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• That and his son, Steven Izzo, plans to come back for a fifth season as a walk-on guard.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
• The new trailer shows Eric come back from the dead to get his bloody revenge.
  — Jaden Thompson, Variety, 14 Mar. 2024
• The company first asked workers to come back in, for just one day a week, in March 2022.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Herbs to start from seed: Sorrel Geese, seagulls, thrushes: This is the week the geese come back.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• The principal got the letter, framed the letter, put it up in the office, and didn’t ask me to come back.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024