put back

verb

put back; putting back; puts back

1

: to return (something) to the place where it belongs

Remember to put the vacuum cleaner back in the closet after you've used it.

The books had been put back neatly on the shelf.

2

British : to change (a planned event) to start at a later date or time

They put back the game until next week.

Examples of put back in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In October 2024, former Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón filed a recommendation in court to resentence the brothers, asking for the possibility of parole to be put back on the table in light of new evidence. — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2026

Naheim is only 22 years old and hasn’t been to a lot of weddings, which maybe explains why, at Mood, his first instinct was to grab a military green fabric that Christian put back. — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026

Doctors spent six hours putting back together what took the grizzly a moment to rip apart. — Jan Thacker, Outdoor Life, 3 Sep. 2026

Cole recalled how, at the close of those early shows, the drawings were removed from their frames and returned to Auckland, to be put back in their cupboards. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for put back

• aback
• attack
• backpack
• backtrack
• bareback
• blackjack
• brownback
• buyback
• callback
• cognac
• comeback
• cutback