'return' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'return' with 20 example sentences.
- return noun
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: document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
: a coming to or returning home
: the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
: getting something back again
: the act of going back to a prior location
: the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
: happening again (especially at regular intervals)
: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
: the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
: a reciprocal group action
: a tennis stroke that sends the ball back to the other player
: (American football) the act of running back the ball after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
: the act of someone appearing again
- return verb
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: go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before
: give back
: go back to a previous state
: go back to something earlier
: bring back to the point of departure
: return in kind
: make a return
: answer back
: be restored
: pay back
: pass down
: elect again
: be inherited by
: return to a previous position; in mathematics
: give or supply
: submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority