take back

Example Sentences

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“House of the Dragon” Season 3 will see Rhaenyra Targaryen take back King’s Landing — but the war is far from over.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026

"If they take back Timbuktu and the other towns, I can go home."

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

But now another type of parenting style is emerging—one where more laissez-faire rules apply and mothers take back some time for themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

Russia has never helped NPT nonweapons states make nuclear fuel; it sells them Russian enriched fuel and offers to take back their plutonium-laden spent fuel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

They’d all arrived on bicycles, hidden in the wayside shrubs now—a few of the riders had doubled up so that when the aircraft passengers left, there wouldn’t be extra cycles to take back with them.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein