kicked back

past tense of kick back

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of kicked back Fernandes Anderson doled out a $13,000 bonus to one of her Council staffers, a relative but not an immediate family member, on the condition that $7,000 be kicked back to her. Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025 Hudgens also kicked back at the resort’s Essencia Spa and had a seven-course meal at the Muna rooftop restaurant. Hannah Sacks, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025 The case was kicked back to Superior Court Judge Timothy Taylor, who ruled that the city should release around two dozen videos to Castañares, though certain portions of the videos should be blurred in light of privacy concerns, according to CBS News 8. Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kicked back
Verb
  • That means certain rules around campfires are relaxed, though visitors are still advised to use best practices for fire management and safety.
    Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Maier relaxed the shutdown pretty quickly.
    Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Still, the allure of Tesla has always rested in its improbable odds.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Facing a three-run deficit against the Yankees’ rested bullpen, Houston scored six times and struck six hits against four relievers, taking the sort of at-bats that have been missing for so much of their inconsistent second half.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Virginia show was among those scaled back from stadiums, but nary a seat or speck of grass went empty at the 20,000-capacity venue as millennials basked in nostalgia and their kids learned the definition of magnetism.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • True to form, when my sons were in first grade, the advanced readers basked in the blue group, middle readers were relegated to the yellow group, the sucky readers sentenced to red.
    Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Peralta leaders had kicked around the idea for years but avoided discussing it in concrete terms, with bureaucratic tangles often getting in the way.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Still, a bulb that is chilled is bound to produce more flowers than one that is planted directly in the garden.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 29 Aug. 2025
  • As the world lost its CO2 blanket over this age of mammals, though, and the world chilled, grasslands, having invented a new form of photosynthesis adapted to this drier, lower-CO2 world, haltingly but inexorably took over much of the Earth.
    Peter Brannen, Big Think, 28 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Falcons played their opener two weeks ago and then had a bye.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The team behind the research noted that many of these genes are tied to developmental delay, which may have played a role in the slower pace of postnatal brain growth in humans compared to chimpanzees.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Throughout their trip, Gomez and her friends lounged on the beach and dressed up in matching sweatsuits.
    Marina Watts, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Guests of the hotel lounged around the pool, mingling, laughing, and dancing.
    L'Oréal Blackett, Refinery29, 4 Aug. 2025

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“Kicked back.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kicked%20back. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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