How to Use back button in a Sentence
back button
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The rest of the time, the back button appears and works like normal.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
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Each page also has forward and back buttons.
—Kathy Yakal, PC Magazine, 8 Apr. 2026
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Please hit the back button on your browser or return to the homepage.
—Harpers Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
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The back button is replaced with swipes up from the left and right bottom corners of the screen.
—Vlad Savov, The Verge, 29 Oct. 2018
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There’ll be a back button, but only when an app can actually use it.
—Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 9 May 2018
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Sites that have been using back button hijacking are now under the gun to end the practice.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
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The case is circular, but four slight corners give it a phantom square shape, with home and back buttons on its right edge.
—Valentina Palladino, Ars Technica, 11 Mar. 2018
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All too often, clicking the back button in your browser doesn’t actually take you back.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
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The current build of Android P shows the old back button design, which is just an outline.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 14 May 2018
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It's built with competitive gamers in mind, with four mouse-click back buttons, two claw-grip bumpers, and six remappable buttons.
—George Yang, PC Magazine, 14 July 2026
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There's also a back button that goes to some completely unknown primary page.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 12 July 2023
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The pleats on its front convincingly disguise the style as a skirt, but the back looks like a pair of trouser shorts with a back button pocket.
—Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2023
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Google says that any site that uses back button hijacking should spend the next two months eliminating the practice.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
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It’s called back button hijacking, and Google has thus far tolerated it.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
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The blue color scheme indicates that the phone is running the Pixel theme, so the back button should be solid white.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
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Garmin also integrated a physical home/back button below the screen, where a haptic one used to sit.
—Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
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The home button was a pill shape instead of a circle, the back button used an older design, and the recent apps button was missing.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2018
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Just like on the Steam Deck, the gamepad comes with touch sensors on its joysticks for motion controls and mappable back buttons.
—Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Nov. 2024
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But to do that, Google had to rethink Android’s traditional back button.
—Chris Welch, The Verge, 3 July 2019
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Now, with Android 10, that back button has been replaced with a side-swipe gesture, which is sometimes confusing.
—Wired, 3 Sep. 2019
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On the right side is a back button and a home button, used for navigating and interacting with the watch, and a speaker grille is on the left side of the round housing.
—Jason Cipriani, CNN Underscored, 27 Sep. 2019
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After the last—about a town called Uncertain, Texas, where nobody can make up their mind—Cannon hit the talk-back button.
—Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
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So developers can disable back next to those areas to ensure the back button isn’t accidentally triggered.
—Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
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The bandmembers had already started packing up when studio engineer Kenny Friesen hit the talk-back button in the booth to speak to the band.
—John U. Bacon, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
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While some websites have designed their own systems to do this, others have back button hijacking as a consequence of a third-party library or advertising stack.
—ArsTechnica, 14 Apr. 2026
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Similarly, there’s no back button for resetting AirPods, for instance.
—David Phelan, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
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The latest version of 8BitDo’s popular gamepad with a touch of retro stylings uses TMR sticks and programmable back buttons.
—Antonio G. Di Benedetto, The Verge, 23 June 2026
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The mockup hardware inside the Killswitch 2 shows a mysterious 'C' button below the right analog stick, along with new back buttons beside the triggers.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
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If you’re used to stock Android phones, you’re probably also thrown off by the button order along the bottom—Samsung has always put the back button on the opposite side as Google.
—Whitson Gordon, Popular Science, 29 June 2020
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There are no back buttons whatsoever, which means considerably less control flexibility and customization.
—Jason Evangelho, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
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