How to Use go way back in a Sentence

go way back

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  • Page and Longhurst go way back.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Pickett and Canales go way back.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Heide had no idea at the time, but their parents go way back.
    Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Malone and the Cowboys go way back.
    Yamillah Hurtado, PEOPLE, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Neil and McGuffey go way back and have been at odds for most of the past decade.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Tyler and Wesley go way back, which makes the adventure even more fun to watch.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Stanley, who’s also known as Starchild, and the Corvette go way back.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2022
  • The two men go way back and stayed in touch even when relations between the two countries were frozen.
    Sha Hua, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Lucy Hale and her blunt bob go way back — all the way to elementary school, in fact.
    Sara Miranda, Allure, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Galbreath and Matthys, who will pitch against Southridge in the state final, go way back.
    Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 18 June 2021
  • And people feel supportive and a lot of Clevelanders go way back with the band.
    Eric Heisig, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Scientists have yet to stamp a date on when this happened, but nervous systems go way back.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
  • The Murder Mystery stars go way back — and their friendship runs deep.
    Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Matt Damon and Casey Affleck go way back — over four decades back, in fact.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Junya Watanabe and denim go way back — and the love affair seems to grow only stronger.
    Miles Socha, WWD, 15 July 2024
  • Their recent attacks on sailing yachts have made news, but our encounters with the predators go way back.
    Victoria Sayo Turner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 July 2023
  • The two of them go way back, as Beckham’s former Galaxy team-mates know only too well.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 8 July 2026
  • Just bear in mind that the ultimate motives for homicide often go way back into the past, even to childhood.
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The clubs’ associations go way back.
    Elizabeth Marie Himchak, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Napier and Smart go way back, both of them growing up as sons of high school football coaches in Georgia.
    Creg Stephenson | [email protected], al, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Probably a good way to start off with talking about that scene is to say that Imelda Staunton and I go way back.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly go way back, but only one of them can remember that.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Keith Urban and Dolly Parton go way back.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Winston and Styles go way back to the musician's boy-band days in One Direction.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • And while their public appearances together are rare, Swift and Sasha Fierce go way back.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Davis and Borregales, both South Florida natives, go way back.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Ben Platt and Beanie Feldstein go way back, and the actor is reminiscing about their years of friendship.
    Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Some of the other homes also go way back; two of them were originally built in the 1860s and had to be updated.
    Helena Madden, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian West go way back — like, to the early 2000s.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Billy Ray Cyrus and Dolly Parton go way back, and he's already responded to the news of her husband's death.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025

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