How to Use report back in a Sentence

report back

phrasal verb
  • The department is supposed to report back to the board in a month on its progress.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • These testers then reported back at the end of the month with their thoughts based on how the fans performed in the real world.
    Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2023
  • Kahan, 27, wasn't gone for long and reported back as promised.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 5 Feb. 2024
  • In a post on her story, Saskia Cort told followers to ask the men in their lives the question and report back.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Officials agreed to have EXOS track how often the public was using the pool and report back to the city.
    Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • The Garden has to report back to the Planning Commission within six months on its progress.
    Dana Rubinstein, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The artwork came with a request: Take the paper cutout version of him on adventures and report back.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2023
  • The department plans to report back to supervisors on ways to pay for the renovations by the end of June.
    Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2023
  • And on the latest episode of her talk show, J-Hud reported back to her audience about the whole experience.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Most of Louisville’s football team has reported back to campus and is set to begin summer workouts ahead of the 2023 season.
    Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 13 June 2023
  • About an hour later, the cousin reported back: A few of the injured children had been admitted, but not Milad.
    Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The director later played the finished number for Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken, and reported back to Ronson.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Blumenfield asked city analysts for a report back on the staffing problems.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2023
  • The county’s health and human services agency will meet with existing street medicine providers to discuss the idea and report back to the board with findings within 90 days.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The project was reported back in 2022 as being in development.
    Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But the data Strava reports back is mostly for my benefit.
    Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2023
  • After some discussion, Judge Williams proposed that both sides listen to the voice-mail recording privately and report back to her.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Those new cells might devour plaque in blood vessels or explore a diseased organ to report back on its condition.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
  • At the time many people in the United States had been caught up in the Spiritualist movement, with its mediums who contacted the dead and reported back.
    Ian Frazier, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Keith reported back in June that the tumor was shrinking and things were looking positive.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Although the ruling is considered legally binding, the court has no means of enforcing it, but ordered Israel to report back on its progress in one month.
    Michael Levenson, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Pence was expected to report back his findings and was peppered with conspiracy theories from Trump and his team, the person said.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 July 2023
  • All embassies were directed to report back to the State Department in Washington on whatever steps were being taken.
    John Miller, CNN, 19 Oct. 2023
  • But Santos soon reported back to her TikTok fans that even with a dual degree in communications and acting, as well as three languages up her sleeve, she was still getting turned down for work.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Shiomi provided participants with cards and instructions to write something on them, place them somewhere and report back to her.
    Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • That makes this the third time that Spotify has cut its podcasting division in the last 12 months as the vertical struggles to turn a profit, despite reporting back in April that ad revenue for podcasts had grown by 20 percent year over year.
    Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 5 June 2023
  • But allowing wearables to understand their surroundings and report back that information is a big deal.
    WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The company will report back a positive or negative result.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 30 May 2023
  • The declaration also directed county staff to report back within 120 days on the pollution’s impacts on local businesses and tourism and to seek out available funds to address the issue.
    Jerry Wu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • The supervisors also directed county staff to report back within 120 days on the economic impacts of ongoing beach closures triggered by the sewage spills.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 July 2023

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