How To Use Backward In A Sentence

Lift your feet a few inches off the floor and slowly rock backwards and forwards. Healthy By Nature
I have found that a tool guided by a straight-edge, and "jiggered" backwards and forwards, makes by far the best lines for blind-tool work. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
He wears his cap backwards and spits rhymes with fierce energy and unbridled theatrics. The Harvard Crimson :: News
What about the other evidence about him in the toilet pacing backwards and forwards, with expletives and asking everyone who came in for a line of drugs - speed?
Every single one of his intended blows was blocked and parried, even when the man tripped and fell backwards.

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Let's remember, for example, how much talk there was during the early 1970s when Olga Korbut performed the backward somersault in tuck position on the beam.
Given the extremely backward state of Polish agriculture, its small farming businesses are expected to die like flies.
Honsha carries are a sword with a snaky curved blade and a short dagger - like weapon with a slightly longer hilt and a blade curved backwards.
Enemies struck by gunfire don't just fall over backwards; they jet blood like the lawn sprinkler in Hell, then collapse into a heap.
The authors conclude that spondylolysis is mainly the fatigue fracture due to locally increased stress and is contributing most by backward extension of lumbar spine.
The egg extended obliquely backward across the fly's prosternum.
It's not just the flummery - the full-bottomed wigs, men walking backwards and so on - but the way this exercise in constitutional theatre is playing to the wrong audience.
A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Swing the near leg forward and backward. Times, Sunday Times
The dichotomy between “forwardness” and “backwardness” is a scale constructed and enforced by the civilizer to validate his civilizing/colonial project. Hartzell and Lin lose on appeal
And, depending on the ball point, can flip over backwards.
Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
There were lots of thrusts and gyrations in the class, which makes sense, since they're burlesquers, but I just don't have the coordination, sadly, to shimmy and walk backward at the same time.
I walked backwards towards the door.
The cylinder incorporates a central spring loaded bushing that permits the cylinder to move forward and backward.
It would certainly confirm the country's international reputation as a backward and benighted land.
And, unlike previous announcements, he wasn't backward in providing the evidence.
Fleet went toppling over backwards, sending his armful of cannonballs clattering across the deck.
It's more of a crablike backward crawl. Times, Sunday Times
Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.
They are backward, uncultured, uncivilized, and completely alien to the good norms values and achievements of the present era.
A trail-blazing super care centre that would move three doctors' practices and a clinic to one site is a backwards step, health bosses were told.
Why, if Ponce de Leon had found the fountain of youth and drunk of it as bibulously as we are apt to guzzle the cup of achievement, he would not only have arrested the forward march of time, but would have over-reached himself and slipped backward through the years of his age to become a chronic infant in arms. The Joyful Heart
The farther the ratio between the rates of rod and disc departs from exactly 1: 5, whether less or greater, the more rapid will the strobic movement, backward or forward, be; until finally the divergence is too great, the newly forming bands lie too far ahead or behind those already formed to fuse with them and so be apperceived as one system, and so the bands are lost in confusion. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
I snarled and she took a step backwards, glancing at the naked blade in my hands.
My inertia in not pushing it backwards into a safe zone is as guilty for the shattered glass as the treacherous wind.
Andreas turned around and kicked out at Justin, sending him staggering backwards to regain his balance.
He rocked the cradle with a gentle backwards and forwards motion.
Chen, who is now playing elder sister to many of her younger classmates, has already accustomed herself to the endless backward somersaults, handstands and horse vaults.
I took an enormous step backward, too fast, and I stumbled, my hands crablike behind me, gripping tufts of spring grass. The Bird House
It's also shaped like a bra so it's easier to get on and off - I hook the eyelets while wearing it backwards and then shift the bra around to get my arms through it.
Backwards Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards.
The fool would put a saddle backwards if left alone. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The back seats can be moved forward and backward, to make the most of luggage space or rear legroom.
They spent their time running backwards and forwards around the vehicles and buildings carrying wounded victims to shelter. Broken Lives
Rather than expanding services to cater for its population explosion, the town has taken a major step backwards over the past thirty years.
At first the pancreas is directed upward and backward between the two layers of the dorsal mesogastrium, which give to it a complete peritoneal investment, and its surfaces look to the right and left. XI. Splanchnology. 2j. The Pancreas
The gap between the linguistic creativity of even the most intelligent ape and even the most backward of human beings is immense.
The steam locomotive was travelling backwards from Rawtenstall to Ramsbottom, pulling three carriages carrying 20 passengers.
The central sulcus of the insula runs in an upwards and backwards direction, almost parallel to the cerebral central sulcus that delimits the frontal lobe from the parietal lobe.
There is a massive sub-culture there, looking backwards and it's getting more insidious all the time.
lovers of the past looking fondly backward
They commence anteriorly at the sternum, in the interspaces between the cartilages of the true ribs, and at the anterior extremities of the cartilages of the false ribs, and extend backward as far as the angles of the ribs, whence they are continued to the vertebral column by thin aponeuroses, the posterior intercostal membranes. IV. Myology. 6c. The Muscles of the Thorax
I'm not a bad driver considering I only started learning three days ago," she said as we careered backwards and then jumped forwards in third gear. Wales: a cross-country adventure on horseback
Caitlin launched herself at him - a sudden spinning kick knocking him backwards.
Take a big step backwards with the back leg. Times, Sunday Times
He cut the ball so that it bounded almost backward.
Too many square or backward passes. The Sun
In its antihumanism and in its thick impasto, with slices and diagonal blades of dark color making sharp edges à la Clyfford Still, this picture looks forward as well as backward. Return to the Grim and Dark
You can also use xenocode. com google it, i use it a lot, although there are some bugs using ie6 backwards compatability, ie entering text in the url bar Windows 7 RC Includes “Windows XP Mode” | Lifehacker Australia
To believe that its catalog is merely a backward extension of Farrar's solo career is to sorely underestimate the essentialness of the three other musicians who made up the band.
No one can outrun someone by running backwards, so don't try… if you are facing someone and decide to run, step cornerwise back, turning and running at the same time.
They have long, conspicuous, forward curving crests on their heads that droop over their eyes and thin, white plumes extending backward from the back of each eye.
A hand yanked him backwards as a car went screaming past him, the driver angrily blaring his horn at him.
But what earthly use has a man for valves in the intercostal veins which carry blood almost horizontally backward to the azygos veins? Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
He can memorise 60 digit numbers in a jiffy and recite them forwards and backwards.
Ferd don't forget the ones who listen to songs backward looking for satanic messages. Critics: 'Avatar' is anti-military & anti-religion
The biventral lobule is triangular in shape; its apex points backward, and is joined by the gray band to the pyramid. IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon
It startled the three spellbound students when Dan took a step backwards into their small closed circle.
For over thirty years we've inculcated a backward mentality in this country.
The opponent's leg can also be lifted to unbalance or to throw the opponent backward.
Backward children need a special kind of schooling.
He strangled the urge to bang his head backwards.
As the rope passes underneath your feet, lunge your left leg forward and your right foot backward so that your feet are straddled about a stride's length apart.
Stepping forward can't finish the distance while going backwards can't get rid of the memory.
The mayor leaned over backward to avoid the appearance of nepotism.
A male colleague got 585 for toppling backwards on a faulty chair while another was handed 14,000 after hurting his back lifting boxes. The Sun
Clearly a name that is easy to spell backwards or forwards is an advantage if spelling isn't your thing. The Sun
The driver set off without a backward glance and the conductor began issuing tickets.
I was beginning to go a little cross-eyed when quite suddenly the ball was rolling backwards.
He just looked backwards and barged in to the goalkeeper. Times, Sunday Times
But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
I like to tell myself, irrationally or no, that Grandma said I had it backwards to consol me. 2010, what I wanted
The anterior border of the sterno-mastoid must be pulled backwards, and the digastric and stylo-hyoid forwards and inwards. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
The starboard ski did a backward somersault over the tail section just as Mike and his crew had feared.
Even grown dogs might hurtle him backward or sideways with the impact of their heavy bodies; and backward or sideways he would go, in the air or sliding on the ground, but always with his legs under him and his feet downward to the mother earth. The Outcast
There are standard forward and backward lunges, customised with wider hip movement and knees stretching out. Times, Sunday Times
Today I learned that “retromingent” means urinating backwards. Ride through My Mind
Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards.
He is enormous, with a caveman's backward-sloping brow, a hawklike proboscis, and a lumbering walk.
The filmmaker seems too prone to adapt herself to backwardness.
Escobar's trying to work backward to find how the guy got ahold of them in the first place, how he knew they'd be willing. FOLLY
The MDS-JE510 also features a Jog Dial for split-second track access, allowing users to skip forwards or backwards through tracks.
Fore and hind may bend either both backwards, as the figures marked A, or in the opposite way both forwards, as in B, or in converse ways and not in the same direction, as in C where the fore bend forwards and the hind bend backwards, or as in D, the opposite way to C, where the convexities are turned towards one another and the concavities outwards. On the Gait of Animals
The horse of one of the lead knights threw its rider and bolted backward.
Beyond sentimentality and self-indulgence, these backward glances at a naïve landscape awaken - or reawaken - the conservationist within us.
Because of his long illness,Tom is backward in his studies.
He is not backwards about coming forwards. Times, Sunday Times
Disturbances can occur while a fish is at rest, when swimming forwards and backwards, and during maneuvers while moving in either direction.
A partner helps secure the board while the nailer bends backward pushing the groove hard onto the tongue with one hand and driving the nail in with the other.
Everytime I read that another superdelegate is endorsing Obama, I think we are supposed to be moving forward, not backward. qbit Obama continues to narrow Clinton's superdelegate lead
China, on the other hand, was just emerging from backwardness.
One can impose a more structured ending by moving backwards a pace or two and waiting until relatives seem to be ready to leave. Growing Through Loss and Grief
He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.' Moon Lore
This shows that Jupiter is ‘retrograde’, which means that it is moving backwards through the zodiac.
Simply stand there wafting an item backwards and forwards while kicking the machine and shouting mild expletives. Times, Sunday Times
The authors conclude that spondylolysis is mainly the fatigue fracture due to locally increased stress and is contributing most by backward extension of lumbar spine.
And short leg had gone back to backward square leg, saving one. Times, Sunday Times
The force of the blow unbalances him, and he falls backwards onto the ground.
Page 252 upwards and forwards; lay bare the digastric and stylo-hyoid muscles at the bottom of the wound, by means of the point of the director or the forceps and draw them forward with a blunt hook: hold the sites of the incision wide apart, carry the nerve and vein backward with the end of the finger, and cautiously open the sheath of the vessel; and then, with the artery isolated apply the ligature by means of an aneurismal needle. An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
Irene glanced backwards and saw that there was no man there.
The top of the stick smashed the man's nose, sending him stumbling backwards before a swift slash caught him in the neck and threw him to the ground.
Next, I saw our dog spring backwards from la ruche! Enflure - French Word-A-Day
She is being dragged backwards, away from the excrescence that despoils her bedroom floor, onto the landing. A MEANS TO EVIL
Naomi smiled and the blonde bombshell snootily followed her, without giving a backward glance.
I try to visualize standing up without it, without a grab bar, without a moderate upper-body assist from a highly trained therapist, without Bob, but when I do I see myself either falling headfirst into the metal stall door or falling backward into the bowl. Left Neglected
The dead man fell backwards, his head cracking against the lap of a stone buddha.
She later became a member of the Grand Rapids Ballet Company in Michigan and says she has a double-jointed back, which allows her to bend backwards from a standing position and touch her feet.
His white hat was seated on his head backwards, the chain that he always wore accompanied by a hemp necklace.
The listener will be treated to un-pedaled acoustic pieces as well as backward loops and dubs as fragile as a tapestry of overlaid spiderwebs.
We can't have a conversation in the hallway, I walk him in backwards.
Then he, too, turned and without a backward glance went out into the passage, slamming the door.
Backwardness will leave us vulnerable to bullying.
In practice, the operator jumps forwards and backwards within the pattern indicated on the chart rechecking some decisions and anticipating others.
Oh, the disgusted look on women's faces as they step backwards through a doorway, out of the rain.
Stepping forward can't finish the distance while going backwards can't get rid of the memory.
The hypothesis favored on current evidence is that as the backwardly directed fins gradually turned into sideways-facing limbs with large areas for muscle attachments, they gained in strength.
Engage forward and reverse gears and shunt backwards and forwards, listening for unusual transmission noises.
When the length of the sentence was then announced, Coltman appeared visibly stunned, swaying backwards and forwards.
The wooden end caught Nogai in the face, and he pitched over backwards.
He gave a loud, startling, heart-wrenching cry and fell backwards in a dead faint.
All the straps fasten on the outside of the leg, with the straps pointing backwards. Your First Horse - buying, feeding, caring
Went backwards or forwards in text looking for particular pieces of information. Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers,
Stepping forward can't finish the distance while going backwards can't get rid of the memory.
We derive explicit formula for the doubly structured normwise backward error, and compare the results with the single structured case.
His height makes it almost impossible for a defender running backwards to outjump him. Times, Sunday Times
Similarly we have upward locomotion and downward locomotion, which are contrary lengthwise, locomotion to the right and locomotion to the left, which are contrary breadthwise, and forward locomotion and backward locomotion, which too are contraries. Physics
The left brain hemisphere posterior speech areas showed much greater activation for forward than backward speech.
He looked up at the tall man with curiosity, tipping back his head to view him, nearly tipping over backwards in his effort.
Do they tire of the messages coming in on the ansible, telling them they are backwards, wrong, out-of-step with the real seasons? All That the Rains Bring
The camera's frequent slow dollies backwards, from a small detail to the wider scene, echo the plot's revelations and the inexorability of fate.
It was a happy choice; my good genius, I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies
Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the Mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
A progressive president and a backward parliament rarely go well together.
I will never forget her exquisite bourree en arriere - the floating quality of her run backwards on her pointes - and the shock when for lack of stage depth she hit the scenery against the back wall and fell. Canada's Artistic Boom II
She said “they seem to have gone backwards” in some respects from a period when J.C. Watts was in congress. Matthew Yglesias » Steele Promises “Off the Hook” PR in “Urban-Suburban Hip-Hop Settings”
And if you wear bifocals or trifocals, keep in mind that you may have a tendency to tilt your head backwards so that you can see through the lower portion of your glasses.
I'd argue that steampunk is basically a form of science fiction that looks backwards rather than forwards. 10. Steampunk, ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
I took my cue to go, and left without a backward glance or wave.
Film titles, like Andy Kaufman's record, jerking backwards and forwards awkwardly, move between fact and fantasy, real and imagined worlds.
Mostly chronological, the action lurches suddenly forwards or backwards as the mood takes it. Times, Sunday Times
The hoof pastern axis may be broken forward or broken backward and the heel angle decreased with a low heel (Figure 2-note the low heel angle on this two month old colt).
The horse started making 'pig-jumps' in every direction forwards and backwards, to the right side and to the left, and sometimes round in a complete circle.
It is broken and caused my wheelchair to topple over backwards.
These are not backward continental ways; they are the global norm for stable relations between owners and managers. Times, Sunday Times
He allowed himself one backward glance towards the estate, then turned his heels to the task of flight.
'' We are definitely going in backwards from the way we wanted to, '' said Romo, who was 23-of-32 for 321 yards with two touchdowns. USATODAY.com - Football - Detroit vs. Dallas
The priest realized the crucial moment, felt his power tottering, opened his mouth in denunciation, but fled backward before the truculent advance, upraised fist, and flashing eyes, of Mackenzie. The Sun of the Wolf
But in their economic desperation, many business and middle-class people have slipped backward, politically.
The left cerebellar tonsil was displaced backward, and the right cerebellar tonsil was herniated and closely apposed to the medulla.
And to cap it all off, when she was tied-up she couldn't run backwards, so she lay down instead!
That backward path is the foundation of Western, linear logic.
We even put one of those spoof backwards recordings on the end of the single for a laugh, to give all those Beatles nuts something to do.
The nerve rounds the anterior border of the neck of the scapula, passing upward and backward under the supraspinatus (antea-spinatus) muscle and terminating in the infraspinatus (postea-spinatus) muscle. Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
But, as I said, I was in amaze, and the next I knew was the pang of the entering steel as this clumsy provincial ran me through and charged forward, bull-like, till his hilt bruised my side and I was borne backward. Chapter 11
And it is fair to surmise that underlying each of these assaults are some very backward-looking and misogynistic beliefs.
The cells of this layer proliferate rapidly, and extending medialward surround the notochord; at the same time they grow backward on the lateral aspects of the neural tube and eventually surround it, and thus the notochord and neural tube are enveloped by a continuous sheath of mesoderm, which is termed the membranous vertebral column. II. Osteology. 1. Development of the Skeleton
To add to that sense of confusion, Nolan films with both forward and backward momentum.
The cells of this layer proliferate rapidly, and extending medialward surround the notochord; at the same time they grow backward on the lateral aspects of the neural tube and eventually surround it, and thus the notochord and neural tube are enveloped by a continuous sheath of mesoderm, which is termed the membranous vertebral column. II. Osteology. 1. Development of the Skeleton
Here we have the Government taking a huge step backwards towards compulsory trade unionism.
Evolution had reached its peak and was going backwards.
Bernstein claimed to have uncovered this information in Pueblo, Colorado, when he ‘regressed’ Tighe backward in time under hypnosis.
The cloud formation rolls backwards as it surges forward at speed. Times, Sunday Times
While the government appears to be bending over backwards to help foreign car makers, there is still little outward encouragement for our most important industry. Times, Sunday Times
As our country is still backward, the workers' conditions cannot be improved overnight, but only gradually on the basis of increased production and particularly of higher productivity of labour.
Keeping the top leg straight, flex the foot and swing the leg forwards and backwards 5 times.
She gently rocked the baby backwards and forwards.
He was wearing dark clothing and had no cycle lights, and was hit by the police car as he glanced backwards.
When we reached the crest and looked backwards, a glorious view was presented. A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
The car passed over the body twice, once backward and then forward.
It matches with these plans here, but the oil pump pushes the oil through the turbocharger backwards. CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER
Only the ‘dawgs’ will run up on you rappin', walking backwards in front of you, them wigwagging and yapping like little Collie dogs.
In the park the pigeons flap and coo, and a couple of girls wearing pink headscarves rock idly backwards and forwards on the red swings beside the climbing frame.
Yet it contained backward-looking, and even antiquarian, impulses too.
Like any real therapy, if one works hard at it, healing moves forward by circling backward, Repentance, turning, is a backstitch.
Dare to challenge this mantra and you are likely to be vilified as a backward-looking weakling.
Ives wrote in 1932, One variation was the theme in canon, put in three keys together, B-flat-E-flat-A-flat, and backwards the cancrizans of Hindemith who was at Yale? "Classical" American Music, cont'd from July 5 post
Many in the country, affronted by the tawdry detail, will feel football has moved backwards. Times, Sunday Times
Backward compatibility is a major issue with any gaming system. Sony cuts price of PS3, again | Sync Blog
When hovering, the same input will make the model start to move backwards.
This was one of the most depressing moments of my life, not entirely for its present state but its reflexive backwardness. WHITE LIES
We see that 'Shroud science' - like 'creation science' and other pseudosciences in the service of dogma - begins with the desired answer and works backward to the evidence.
And I thought, 'He's gonna be all blinged up, with attitude and a backwards baseball cap. Dancing With the Stars Backstage Report: Romeo's Last Dance
That said, backward-compatibility is a relatively new feature for consoles - for a long time, buying a next-generation machine meant leaving your software library behind.
It is part of the human activity of storytelling to retell, misremember, breakup and tell backwards, peek into the crannies and tell the other stories (thank you Euripides), wonder what might have been, what could be, and tell the same stories over and over, but tell them slant. Fan the Flames
Then they went to the pit, and planted the torches there before stepping backward to their appointed places.
And then this evening, throwing off her melancholy, she had barged him without warning and jinked away with a cheeky backward glance, rolling a couple of the cubs onto their backs as she ran.
The mayor leaned over backward to avoid the appearance of nepotism.
No one is using the scientific method or offering any kind of testable hypothesis; just look backwards, find whichever market indicator helps support the anti-Obama thesis, and let the hackery commence. The Volokh Conspiracy » Health Insurance and Pharma Stocks Rise, US Treasuries Sink in Reponse to Obama Care:
To go backwards, you must put the car in/into reverse .
In his book Orientalism, Edward Said points out that foreign cultures are set up as being different, backward and separate by the unconscious desire to mystify and exoticise their behaviour, history and geography.
Sheep not fully grown, the wool fine, the Horns were abought 4 inches long, Celindric, Smooth, black, a little bending backwards and pointed; they rise from the Middle of the foeheard, and a little above the eyes, and appeared to possess all the marks of the Common Sheep as already discribed. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
It's compatible with new Bluetooth 3.0-enabled devices as well as backward compatible with older Bluetooth-enabled peripherals such as headsets and printers. AmazonWireless: Samsung Captivate Android Phone (AT&T)
Under what conditions does the labor supply curve bend backward? Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
He was old-fashioned, backward-looking, scared of change and progress.

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