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come back

Retort or reply; also, retaliate. For example, No matter how many insults he flings, I can always come back with another . [Late 1800s]
Return to or regain past success or popularity, as in It's hard to come back from two sets down and win the match , or Long hemlines are coming back this fall . [Early 1900s]
Return to one's mind, as in Her name came back to me after I saw her picture . [Late 1800s]

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Example Sentences

Obviously, not all the original cast can come back or even have the desire.

David Prowse, the actor who portrayed Darth Vader, wished to come back but had to turn down the role because of ill health.

“She said, ‘Bill wants us to come back over for dinner again,’” Hogue recalled.

Almost every fictional hero of my childhood has come back to life on the big screen in recent years.

We get to leave, come back to the States, and they have to stay.

Long before that, however, the sun had come back to gladden the Polar regions, and break up the reign of ancient night.

But since this has little or nothing to do with the story, I pass by my mining adventures and come back to the hotel.

In two or three minutes Rosemary appeared once more, without her hat and coat, to say that "Angel" had not yet come back.

Shouting to his two plucky assistants to come back, Frank called out to Chumru and bade him join them.

I don't know why, unless he had some money they had overlooked and was afraid they might come back for another try at him.

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