How To Use Back up In A Sentence

I felt, in reading your unreproaching letter to her, as self-reproachful as anybody could with a great deal of innocence (in the way of the world) to fall back upon. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)
His offhand manner put my back up.
These people write reasonable, well-balanced letters, disclaim any belief in racialism, and back up everything they say with copious instances. As I Please
How about how the door of your car opens as you back up from the burnout to let burnout smoke escape the cockpit?
Then the piston moves back up to compress this fuel/air mixture.

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Nemours showed him at once what use to make of the army under his orders, and having enfiladed his National Guard battalions, and placed his artillery in echelons, he formed his cavalry into hollow squares on the right and left of his line, flinging out a cloud of howitzers to fall back upon the main column. Burlesques
But still bankers in brokerage firms with giant bonus options think they can prop it back up. Times, Sunday Times
Uncle and aunt have moved back up north to have another go after her affair. Times, Sunday Times
The long-awaited opening will mark the triumphant end of a battle stretching back up to four years.
The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
Jack came back upstairs moments after Sean and sighed heavily, slumping against the door, then quickly retreating to the safety of his office.
She looks down and back up, meeting my gaze with cool blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
But the same urchins along the walk from the strip back up the rise toward the quarters, the same characterless sleep.
You'd better back up these files!
This exposed strand then searches for a copy of itself (located on its sister chromosome), and "photocopies" past the broken region, repairing the DNA and zipping itself back up. Newswise: Latest News
The gaffer made me captain at the start of the season and I want to be back out there helping the lads get back up the league.
Other than a few academically toned articles, I have yet to meet or read anyone who will actually back up their assertions with references to the books.
Those of us who had the honour and the rare advantage of knowing him intimately and well over many years find, upon looking back upon that vast experience, something unique, over and above the learning, over and above the application of that learning to Thomism, which is surely the very heart of the Dominican affair. Belloc Speaks - To the Undying Memory
The more that they appear the more likely it is that a British patrol is being "dicked" (observed) and information is being passed back up the Taliban chain. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly. A TIME OF WAR
It was a truck with a projector in the back that they'd back up to the hall, open a flap in the wall and the projector would poke through that. We'd sit on forms watching cowboy movies, I think cowboy movies was all they showed!
No one ever accused us of being over-rehearsed," Stephen Stills says at one point, shortly before he's shown tripping over a footlight on the stage and playing flat on his back while he rolls from side to side trying to get himself back up. Evan Handler: Find the Cost of Freedom (of Speech)
Collared peccaries, or javelinas, may be the agents most responsible for moving leguminous tree seeds back upstream.
I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
She looks down and back up, meeting my gaze with cool blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
It will probably feel like clawing his way back up a cliff. Times, Sunday Times
Just to back up,remember how diverse we're finding Christianity, and we're going to start seeing that diversity now representing itself in Christology.
The announcement was welcomed by environmental campaigners, who had criticised the government for failing to back up support for natural flood defences with cash for projects. Times, Sunday Times
The car was winched back up but was a write-off. The Sun
If you save the picture to jpg than open it back up, the colors get a smir .... VideoHelp.com Forum
I look back upon myself at this time as upon a cantankerous, ill - tempered and unobliging child. Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
He asks: "Is there any scientific evidence to back up the assertions of clinical ecology? An Alternative Approach to Allergies
Sadly, research doesn't back up the idea that women have reached a nirvana of liberated sexuality.
We do not need numbers to back up the fact that your Martin DM uses less electricity than your stereo that takes up the same amount of shelf space as a bullmastiff. Jenna Woginrich: Stop Making Fun of My Banjo
A good book is a best friend who never turns his back upon us.
The bus had to back up and turn round.
Sharpe grabbed a handful of his mare's mane to haul himself back upright.
He picked his sword back up and hefted its weight before moving predatorily in the direction of the prone man.
‘We had better go and see if anyone's been hurt,’ Cate said, pointing the torch back up towards the bombsite.
A complete breakdown of budget talks could push rates back up, at least temporarily, analysts concede.
He hadn't made the arrest himself, but had been called in as back up.
He clipped the ropes to the new anchors, rapped and unstuck the ropes (they were in the water too) and prussiced back up to the anchors.
Sometimes it takes weeks, months, to acquire not just accurate information, but documentation to back up your story.
Things are much much better now, my insurance is awesome, and I have a pump and just got cgs, my blood sugars are pretty good (except in my last a1c, but in a few months, I will put a better number back up there), but it has taken me a long time to get over a lot of the fear and anger from that experience. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes
These days, most organizations seem to back up their servers and hope that their employees don't store the only copy of important files on their company desktops.
I had put on my clothes, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair and cleaned up my room a little before they came back upstairs.
Contractors should back up their computer data weekly; any backup disks should be stored off-site in a secure location.
Completely astonished, my incredulous father gets back up and opens the door, to what he now deems the nerviest dog he has ever met. Wendchymes Diary Entry
The Christian woman who can reflect upon a laborious life of domestic duty, looks back upon a scene of true virtue; and if, in order to perform the whole of her allotted task, she was obliged to repress a taste for pursuits more intellectual, the character of magnanimity is inscribed upon her conduct, however retired, or in human estimation insignificant, may have been the daily exercises to which she was appointed. Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
When he looked back up at Theron, he could see anger smoldering in his eyes.
Find one thread close to the edge of the fold of the hem, and insert your needle there, then come back up through the fold. Times, Sunday Times
It just gets washed back up the beach. Times, Sunday Times
It just gets washed back up the beach. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, this player lent Nicky his driving-licence, and Nicky enclosed a photostat of it to back up his story.
Radio signals received from the galaxy's centre back up the black hole theory.
But afterwards they padded me back up and pushed me out the door again - only to discover that they hadn't put my box or thigh-pad back on!
By the time I got back up the hill he had three saplings—the two hardhack runners plus a straight young ash, destined to be our tongue—felled and limbed. The Dirty Life
Nevertheless after two or three goings back upon himself, and thoughts that "the maister must have gone gyte," Duncan set himself slowly in motion. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Sifakas' body temperature falls a few degrees at night, another calorie-saving adaptation; when morning comes, they take extended sunbaths high in the trees to bring their temperature back up to normal.
She looks down and back up, meeting my gaze with cool blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
The birds would swoop into the cold water then reach their heads back up to the fishermen.
Team officials had to haul him back upright to carry on playing. The Sun
Are the changes enough to transform more non-believers into Corvette buyers and pump sales back up, as Chevrolet hopes?
But mark my words - such a strategy will never work, because by mid morning, you'll be reaching down and adjusting your sock levels by hoicking them back up into place.
We always like seeing the topgallants run back up in spring.
But on my drive back uptown I saw that on every block there seemed to be a homeless person.
To back up its powers of scrutiny it can compel witnesses to provide information, freeze assets, suspend trustees and, in the final resort, dissolve a charity.
Christensen calls the purser and tells her to get all of the flight attendants out of the crew rest quarters, and he orders the relief first officers back up to the cockpit. Touching History
No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. The sun comes right back up the next day.
The helicopter rattled a bit, the engine spooled back up, and Nr rapidly rose to 100 percent.
By the quantity of provision which I had consumed I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes. Chapter 7
He crept back up the stairs, trying to avoid the ones that creaked.
All the polls back up his belief that the opposition will win. Times, Sunday Times
The objects slowed at one point, and then sped back up heading in a southerly direction.
Millard has little to back up his 'frightener' apart from some vague reference to some patients he woke up only for them, presumably, to have to go through the whole process again later. Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news
The 1,260-acre Homewood Mountain Resort, for example, has been working since 2006 to revegetate old roads and ski trails, coat forest floors with chipped wood and pump runoff back up the mountain. Lake Tahoe's Moment of Clarity:
I'll pick it back up tomorrow after the new year hullabaloo is over. Archive 2005-12-01
He then lost control of the vehicle, drove down through the ditch and back up, right into the northbound lanes on Highway 12.
The doctors and the medical staff did a great job of fixing me back up and I'm just happy I still got a pinky.
I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly. A TIME OF WAR
I walk back upstairs with pints, quarts, a bag of crisps.
With double-hung windows, pull the top sash down and paint the bottom part of it first; push it back up and paint the top part of it, then the bottom sash, then the jambs and frame.
In the afternoon, he coasts down the hill on his bicycle to a quaint village, stops at a Peet's coffee shop for a latte or Chai tea, and pumps back up the hill.
Brant said he would not hold a long-term grudge against Sony "as long as they get the stuff back up and running and nobody has to suffer from it. Boston.com Top Stories
Hence, for the most apparent, the most clearly defined, and the best understood foundation for a nosological scheme for insanity, we are forced to fall back upon the symptomatology of the disease—the apparent mental condition, as judged from the outward manifestations. The Mad Among Us
And the trainer did not forget his back up team at Rosewell House either, adding ‘Many people were concerned in last Tuesday's effort and my staff did a wonderful job with Media Puzzle.’
Happy the author whose earliest works are read and understood by the lustre thrown back upon them from his latest! for then we receive the impression of continuity and cumulation of power, of peculiarity deepening to individuality, of promise more than justified in the keeping: unhappy, whose autumn shows only the aftermath and rowen of an earlier harvest, whose would-be replenishments are but thin dilutions of his fame! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860
You should try to back up your data as often as you can in case you lose it or need to reconfigure your system.
While I read "at once" to mean "all at the same time" you obviously read it as "immediately." so while your follow up made little sense to me since it was redundant in the manner in which I read the thread starter's comment, it was quite sensible in the manner in which you read it. therefore, I dug you back up. brool story co. Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
What makes that egregious and selfish act more serious than just disgustingly dishonorable is that those fake awards are used to justify and back up applications for employment or appointment, for winning political office, and even claims for veteran's benefits - including government medical treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome. Media Coverage October
Trembling, he stood, buttoning his shirt back up.
We then invent criteria to back up the choice, delegating our responsibility to professional specialists.
Soon after it got back up again and trotted off. Times, Sunday Times
None of these writers produced research evidence to back up their claims, basing them exclusively on clinical practice and theoretical projections.
‘Nothing, mom, she just wants to come over’ I clumped back upstairs and changed into a teal sweater and khaki bell-bottoms.
The younger one hopped in and they drove back up to the dooryard.
I abjure them, I abhor them, I turn my back upon them forever and utterly. A TIME OF WAR
Rhonda covered Mitch's body back up, and addressed the Detective with unconcealed disesteem.
At a quarter to eleven she galloped back up to the attic room.
No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. The sun comes right back up the next day.
At the bottom of the motion, reverse direction by extending your legs and straighten back up to the start position, exhaling as you complete the movement.
I can tell when people are smoking nearby and I'm out in the open air and it just puts my back up.
The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
Mark turned back around and saw Robin putting her glasses on and clipping her hair back up.
Would we do it if we did not have the US to back up our idle threat?
Wilshere came striding back up the cobbled path, whacking his boot with his crop. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
It takes a full man-day to patch them all once per month, and ensure that they all boot back up (often several times) and don't fail on reboot.
His brainwave was to replace the current fixed self-sealing rubber splash curtains, which trap a bullet once it has passed through the target and prevent it ricocheting back up the range, with movable curtains.
Traffic is travelling at a slow rate with back ups developing that are unnecessary.
So, it was back up to the surgery this morning, at the ungodly hour of nine o'clock.
We were one of them - coming from a scunnered [difficult] position and then getting back up there again. Times, Sunday Times
But he ducked the blow and darted his head back up colliding with Kung's chin.
The shot fades out and comes back up the next morning with Kanzaki, asleep at his desk, being awoken by an impatient man holding a tux.
Such an assessment strikes me as the kind of optimism that only the extremely eccentric would back up with betting money. Times, Sunday Times
He used a credentialed source to back up a certain claim.
At this point, my mate who was driving was pissing himself laughing, so I thought "Yeh, job done", and hoiked my keks back up. Army Rumour Service
In places along the wall defenders sought to get their poles under the bridges, between them and the crenelation, and, using the wall as a fulcrum, to lift the bridges back up. Renegades Of Gor
She looked back up the grassy slope.
After only a few seconds she put the phone down and looked back up at the two teens.
The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
Christian should reluctantly give up, one by one, the pleasures of the world; and look back upon them, when relinquished, with eyes of wistfulness and regret: because he knows not the sweetness of the delights with which true Christianity repays those trifling sacrifices, and is greatly unacquainted with the _nature_ of that pleasantness which is to be found in the ways of Religion. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.
Being in a beauty pageant has always appeared to be about good looks and I used to be a detractor but I've learnt that you need to back up the beauty with brains.
They spend three to five years in the ocean, then make a difficult journey back upriver to spawn.
Life has to be balanced and happy so when I made the conscious decision to try to keep my work and the rest of my life separate, it was the logical decision to come back up the road.
The team cited evidence from a recent earthquake to back up their idea.
Roll the pieces back up, and secure with a toothpick.
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
Suddenly she was brought to an upright position, blood rushed back down from her previously upside down head, before it came back up to flame her pale face.
The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
It's easier to back up user data and simplify disaster recovery procedures that way. Computing
As soon as you have drunk, you turn your back upon the spring.
Pulling himself back up to his feet, Seraphine groaned as he held out a hand to Erian, aiding him in standing as well.
Everbody be booin an catcallin him, but he climbed on back up in the ring an brung with him a foldup chair. Forrest Gump
About half-way back up the hill, pausing for a breather, I spied a couple of beautiful little cockerels, hiding in the hedge.
He booted the ball 40 yards back up field.
As soon as you have drunk, you turn your back upon the spring.
We work on all aspects of goalkeeping but especially getting back up quickly to counter any follow-up.
There are no statistics to back up this claim, but some say millennials are oversensitive, hyper-censorious snowflakes who aren’t happy unless they’re unhappy about something.
We ended up going back upstairs and making passionate love again.
Satisfied, Arlie started back up the stairs, but curiosity got the better of her.
Cars were parked across the road, and traffic was already beginning to back up.
Less feedback ratio can help to reduce feedback uplink's band requirement and base station's burden.
Though preliminary, scientific studies back up the notion that weather affects your health, says a biometeorology professor at Utah State University in Logan.
So, just before I stash all my bits of paper from 20 years ago back up in the attic, here are a vintage selection of doodles from my Berlin years, 1983 to 1984.
Now she was enjoying herself and savoring every moment of climbing back up.
Make sure you back up your files.
Let me back up and say they also get a book that is what my wife calls mercifully short. Deadlines & Datelines: Essays at the Turn of the Century
Then copy from the page subdirectory one of your page*. dat files that is the problem case back up to the TARGETDIR so all of the pieces are in the same place. Random($foo)
SAN ANTONIO — George Hill sank yet another big shot from the corner, this time right in front of the Dallas Mavericks bench, and ran back upcourt flashing three fingers. Spurs Push Mavs To Brink Of Elimination With Another Win
A gigantic oak had been felled by a recent storm & my 10-year-old son & I decided to spend the day together, me chain sawing the oak & splitting the wood, & my son piling it up in the wheelbarrow & hauling it back up to the deck.
It's a good idea to back up your files onto floppy disk.
He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
They may wish to build their home back up, but it's going to require an entire neighborhood to kind of coalesce and that's a difficult thing to get together, isn't it? CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2006
Shame lingers rather longer, mainly as your mother can be left behind at home when you head back up to Dublin, but the vague cloudy memories of your behavior, sadly, cannot.
Radio signals received from the galaxy's centre back up the black hole theory.
It allowed me to bury all the broken promises I made, all the times I let friends and family down, all the times I spoke loudly and forcefully and hurtfully to others and had no real knowledge to back up what I was saying. The 7
There comes a point, alas, when a baby bird, trying its wings, finds it has planed down off the roof, and can't get back up again.
I cast my gaze downwards towards the floor then looked back up at his hazel eyes.
The Dragoons closest to the Prussians immediately turned and galloped back up the slope towards their comrades.
She looks down and back up, meeting my gaze with cool blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
We trudged back up the hill.
I'm expecting the co-pilot to back up the captain with both the flying and the observing for threats.
Looking down for a second to catch myself before I overfilled my tank, I withdrew the pump and stuffed my receipt in my pocket before I looked back up.
Remove the silk, and then gently pull the husks back up, twisting the husks off at the top with twist ties.
When this end is pulled, the rope from the sleeve travels back up and out the pant leg until it gets stuck again!
You should try to back up your data as often as you can in case you lose it or need to reconfigure your system.
Ulverston Ladies Hockey Club can look back upon a memorable season, having achieved the double of winning both the Netherwood and Cumbria leagues.
When he eventually bobbed back up at the surface, we swam over to join him and to admire his catch - a huge triton shell.
All that is material to this case is what substantial evidence Frank has to back up his claim about Militant infiltration.
The younger doctor also produced medical notes and blood test records to back up his account. Times, Sunday Times
When we got to pitch 2 (Stink Pot I think), the top was much tighter than I had ever gone down on a rope and I really didn't fancy prusiking back up it, so I decided to let the others go on and have a rest.
There will be no tendency for him to bounce back up and regain his previous equilibrium.
He notes that had a solid joint been used, there should have also been notes about interior mortar parging of the back up block as well as a ‘tar like building paper’ to prevent water migration to interior finishes.
We gathered the cat back up and walked back to its apartment.
When the weights reach the floor the clock has to be wound, hoisting the weights back up.
The sheets held by little pink fingers tentatively dipped down to reveal Marc's terrified face, then were drawn back up tight. CORMORANT
The cue ball bounced off three cushions and rolled back up the table to nudge the red into the pocket.
She looks down and back up, meeting my gaze with cool blue eyes. Times, Sunday Times
With that said the captain turned and walked back up the gangplank to the ship and began shouting orders to his crew.
Very opinionated, which is fine, but he does not back up his crit of Derrida with any close reading either so there you go. What is Philosophy? A Few Thoughts from a Non-expert on the Passing of Derrida and Reactions to It
The bus had to back up and turn around.
At that point he activated the in-car audio recording system and decided to call for back up.
We watched a group of airborne insects break out of cocoons two stories above the street, crawl down the side of the building, then back up again as butterflies.
She'd eaten as much breakfast as she could stomach, and kept her mind on other things so she wouldn't throw it back up.
This would be what we call a corrupted server and this is what happens when you back up your website pages, but not the database. Progress report
No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. The sun comes right back up the next day.
The Seine snakes down to the bottom right before curving back up.
Climbing back up the steps and continuing west, we find some tumbledown shacks at the top of the path leading to the slipway. Historic walking trails: smugglers' routes in Cornwall
After missing on the first three attempts over 11 days, the drilling team determined they were less than a half meter from their target when a "whipstock," a wedge intended to divert the drill at a sharp angle, became stuck, forcing them to back up 100 meters to try again, before hitting the well. BusinessWeek.com --
Jeans are growing back up to the waistband as women become slightly more modest about showing off their underwear every time they sit down.
The bus had to back up and turn around.
No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief. The sun comes right back up the next day.
David heard a series of thumps as the heavy-footed Cath made her way down and back up the basement stairs.
We're back upstairs already, on a table in the office. Times, Sunday Times
What will fill the gap and at the same time back up the intermittent wind? Times, Sunday Times
It was about a half a mile downhill, with an absolutely beautiful view of the countryside, although it was always a bit harder to get back up again after a few pints.
It will probably feel like clawing his way back up a cliff. Times, Sunday Times
If I were you, I'd shimmy back up that tree before they figure it out. BREACH OF DUTY
I stumbled, ending up on all fours on the minty coolness of the lawn, but I was back up instantaneously, perhaps before she'd even noticed. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The traffic is starting to back up on the M25.

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