date back

idiom

: to have come into being (a number of years ago)

a custom that dates back 400 years

Examples of date back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The original owners, Sarah and Francis White, date back to the early settlers and were philanthropists who held fundraisers at the home for impoverished families and for children with special needs. —

Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024 The Rough and Rowdy Ways material has been completely tossed out, replaced by tunes that date back to 1965’s Highway 61 Revisited and stretch all the way to 2012’s Tempest. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 8 July 2024 The Le Pens have financial and ideological ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin that date back decades. —

Cécile Alduy, Foreign Affairs, 4 July 2024 The recordings, discovered in the label’s archives in 2021, date back to April 1990. —

Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for date back

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