How to Use date back to in a Sentence

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  • Sourced from the Corbel, French doors that date back to the 1800s close off the modern space.
    Jessica Cherner, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2023
  • These split doors came to the U.S. from the Netherlands and date back to at least the 17th century.
    Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
  • Some of these bones date back to about 2.1 million years ago.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Sourced from the Corbel, French doors that date back to the 1800s close off the modern space, which opens right up into the bedroom.
    Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 May 2023
  • His office at Xavier is lined with typewriters, many of which date back to the early days of the machines in the late 1800s.
    cincinnati.com, 10 May 2023
  • The coins were located around fives miles away from the Viking castle Fyrkat, and date back to more than a thousand years ago.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The Quranic folios are meanwhile thought to date back to the 9th century.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Reward credit cards, which date back to the 1980s, first started out as cards for the affluent.
    Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The origins of the loafer date back to as early as the 1920s, when King George VI commissioned a country house shoe that became the first loafer.
    Christian Gollayan, menshealth.com, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In the dining room, there are paintings of her husband's great-grandparents, which date back to the early 1900s.
    Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Florida officials say records of red tide along the state’s Gulf of Mexico coast date back to the 1840s.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Efforts to turn it into a movie date back to 2007, when New Line Cinema tried to produce it.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The research team’s experiences date back to the Apollo era.
    Carlos R. Muñoz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Biden’s history of gaffes date back to his time as vice president.
    Sara Dorn, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Found on the city's West Bank — the site of many previous archeological discoveries — the tomb is thought to date back to the time of the pharaohs.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Seasats’ roots date back to a garage project in which a group of friends built an autonomous surface drone with the goal of sailing from Rhode Island to Spain.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The breakfast gatherings date back to at least when George W. Bush was governor.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • The necropolis date back to nearly 2,000 years ago, according to a report by CBS News.
    Wendy Geller, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Criticism over fees and Ticketmaster date back to the mid-1990s.
    Chad Pergram, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Putnam’s roots in Boston date back to its launch by George Putnam in 1937, in the early years of the mutual fund industry.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
  • This digital feud appears to date back to a performance in New Jersey last month.
    Vulture, 13 June 2023
  • Many of these levees, which date back to the Gold Rush, were built close to the river banks to create narrow channels where the water would flow faster to flush out mining debris.
    Adam Beam, ajc, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The allegations against Hoggle, who has received a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia in the past, date back to the fall of 2014.
    Dan Morse, Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Haggis is an ancient dish whose roots date back to antiquity.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Police officials have said the cases being reviewed date back to 2016.
    Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Both date back to Mary of Modena's coronation in 1685 and both have been used in every queen consort coronation since.
    Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 25 Apr. 2023
  • There’s evidence of some lava flows on Olympus Mons that date back to only a few million years ago, but these are small-scale events and likely sporadic.
    Phil Plait, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2023
  • This site, dubbed New York Canyon, contains layers of marine sediment that date back to the end-Triassic extinction.
    Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Once a delicacy served in royal courts, the tubular rice cakes date back to the Joseon period in Korea, where it was traditionally cooked in a sweet soy sauce and beef.
    Youyoung Lee, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The earliest structures the researchers studied date back to the time when groups were just starting to transition from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to an agricultural one, Šprajc says.
    Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 6 Jan. 2023

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