How to Use go way back in a Sentence

go way back

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• Heide had no idea at the time, but their parents go way back.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Feb. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The two actors go way back, having met in the '70s as castmates at Toronto's branch of the Second City improv theater.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye and his wife, Ann Michael Maye, go way back.
  — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 8 Feb. 2026
• But Safdie and Pattinson are buddies who go way back to when Pattinson starred in the 2017 Safdie brothers stressfest Good Time.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2026
• The two go way back, becoming friends after Assad scored the overtime game-winner for Franklin against Ferreira’s Falmouth team in the 1983 Div.
  — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 16 Feb. 2026
• Hargrave and Notaro go way back, having met nearly 15 years ago, when Hargrave was managing a tour for Sarah Silverman that Notaro was the opener for.
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 29 Nov. 2025