backspace

How To Use backspace In A Sentence

• Trouble is, now a couple of my keys are not working so well - probably just misaligned, but my backspace, and my enter and delete and arrow keys don't want to work.
• Heard at the Backspace Agent seminar: “Trying to find an agent through blind querying is like trying to find a job by sending out blind resumes.” Writer Unboxed » 2007 » November
• All of this wasted space could be put to much better use: dedicated home, end, page up, page down keys; a bigger spacebar and shift, return, and backspace keys.
• * backspace, backspace* wait ... where the hell did i think was? Vampishone Diary Entry
• To erase, you must backspace
• There is no backspace key in real life, but I am always reaching for one - I get half way through a sentence and then realise that it should have started somewhere else if it is to go where I suddenly realise it wants to.
• I was amazed by how well he could carry on a conversation by typing away on his laptop - almost as fast as he could talk - stopping occasionally to backspace and correct a spelling or reconsider a word or phrase.
• I couldn't keep track of how often I pressed my backspace key or how often I deleted entire sentences and paragraphs because I knew whatever I wanted to say - it just had to be right.
• As you can see, the keyboard adopts the older ‘small enter key’ layout, in which the backslash is positioned below backspace and above the enter key instead of being flanked by the equal key and backspace.
• I then peacefully backspaced through my email and re-wrote.