BACK OF Synonyms: 5 Similar and Opposite Words

back of

preposition

Definition of back of next

as in in back of

at, to, or toward the rear of the equipment shed is a concrete structure back of the school

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Recent Examples of back of San Jose, with 84 points, is five points back of the Kings with two games left to play. —

Curtis Pashelka, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026 All of them involved a car sideswiping the back of a tractor-trailer that was making a lane change. —

Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 One of the four bullets struck the teen in the back of the head, killing him, the suit says. —

ABC News, 13 Apr. 2026 At least one person was killed Saturday when a car crashed into the back of a tow truck and caught fire on state Route 54 in Bonita, officials said. —

City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for back of

Recent Examples of Synonyms for back of

behind

Preposition

Russian strikes hit more than a half-dozen areas of Ukraine behind the front line from Tuesday to Wednesday, killing an 8-year-old boy in the central Cherkasy region and a woman who was in a kiosk near a bus stop that was hit in southern Zaporizhzhia, according to Zelenskyy and local officials.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
But back came the Heat, pushing their lead to seven midway through the fourth quarter behind the scoring of Mitchell.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026