put back

verb

1. to return to its former place
2. to move to a later time or date

   the wedding was put back a fortnight

3. to delay or impede the progress of

   the strike put back production severely

Example Sentences

On a computer screen, the dinosaur’s internal architecture is put back together for the first time in millennia.

From Los Angeles Times

If put back to back, they show a decline in American society and politics that’s quite frightening.

From Los Angeles Times

It added that it hoped the portrait could be repaired "as soon as possible so the portrait can be put back on display".

From BBC

In Mrs Roberts' treatment, 22 eggs were retrieved, 13 were fertilised and three were put back, which led to the successful birth of her twin girls.

From BBC

Probate law needs to be reformed to prevent properties “sitting empty in perpetuity,” he adds, but above all he believes empty homes need to be put back in the spotlight as a national issue.

From BBC