backing

How To Use backing In A Sentence

• Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
• By backing the policy, he committed the party to supporting a 'no-platform' policy.
• I saw wheel tracks to the right, crossed by similar tracks back again to the road, and I guessed that the postilion had intended to drive his horses down the byroad, but having found it too rough or too narrow had been compelled to return, even at the cost of loss of time in backing. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow
• May is in an enviable position and enjoys huge backing from the public. The Sun
• As possibly the sole surviving remnant of the Dragon empire it surely deserves some backing from the industry.
• Desperate copywriters use the ‘in the tradition of’ device, piggybacking on another writer's fame.
• After much blundering and backing, it stopped at the door: rolling heavily from side to side when its other motion had ceased, as if it had taken cold in its damp stable, and between that, and the having been required in its dropsical old age to move at any faster pace than a walk, were distressed by shortness of wind. American Notes for General Circulation
• Thanks in part to Iraq and Afghanistan, we are, decades later, backing off from this self-confident universalism. Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa | David Booth
• The band has a strong emphasis on vocals and harmony with guitarists, concertina, keyboard, accordion and harmonica backing.
• In ruling out a Yes vote from the get-go, Israel conceded immediate defeat in the world body, in the process forgoing a range of tactical advantages it could have gained by signaling qualified support for a resolution and then negotiating to help shape its wording to a text Israel could have profited by backing. Bradley Burston: Ten Reasons Palestine Is Right to Bring its Case to the UN