Used in a Sentence

returned

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for returned.

Editorial note

Using our sensor geometry, there's an ambiguity from where off to the side the energy was returned from.

Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

That has come back.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of returned gathered in one view.

adjective

That has come back.

adjective

Bent back; angled.

adjective

(finance) Yielded as a return on an investment etc.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for returned.

adjective

That has come back.

adjective

Bent back; angled.

adjective

(finance) Yielded as a return on an investment etc.

adjective

(US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) Back home having been discharged from military service.

Example sentences

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Using our sensor geometry, there's an ambiguity from where off to the side the energy was returned from.

2

Accessing undefined/unitialized global or instance variables (like: @i) is not an error and nil will be returned.

3

Hydro is likely going in reverse as many rivers were returned to original condition for environmental reasons.

4

You could just as easily have stored more procedures in the object returned by the constructor.

5

Christ rose from the dead and promises on judgement day when he returned to raise the dead and judge them.

6

The latter may result in multiple SQL queries whereas the former are returned from the cache.

7

This one is always fun when your SQL server doesn't guarantee the order of rows returned so every time you hit.

8

One thing I'm struggling with is the data model, of what exactly is returned on an event.

9

My flagging privileges have since been magically returned though, so maybe I was on a year long time out?

10

I sell ads around the content that is returned in these search results, including your song.

11

This goes to corporate shareholders but provides little or no returned value.

12

And while on the matter, I've yet to understand why the Parthenon marbles are still not returned where they belong: in Parthenon.

Quote examples

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Furthermore, looking at that link suggests that the "luxury exclusions" are working as intended: all of the requests for deregulation due to income were approved and the rents returned to market rate.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use returned in a sentence?

Using our sensor geometry, there's an ambiguity from where off to the side the energy was returned from.

What does returned mean?

That has come back.

What part of speech is returned?

returned is commonly used as adjective.