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Sentence Examples Her red hair was pulled backward into a bun, and two thin wisps of hair dangled near her eyes. When Duncan starts moving forward and backward in time while psychic witches and warlocks control him, the show becomes ludicrous. Then they went to the pit, and planted the torches there before stepping backward to their appointed places. They were seated at the midpoint of the nave, with us facing them backward, that is, toward the narthex rather than the apse of the cathedral. With the exception of certain, fully-gentrified areas, localism and tribalism reign, provincial and backward attitudes dominate. Communication, except the more primitive kinds and the printed word were lost as survivors slipped backward toward savagery. The noise started Jordan and made her take a step backward onto a rattle of the baby's which made her fall backwards onto the foot of the bed. The lunar year is approximately 354 days long, so the months rotate backward through the seasons and are not fixed to the Gregorian calendar. Tired of criticising les rosbifs as backward and bellicose, they are marvelling at Britain's economic robustness. White trash rednecks from backward places such as Texas are an even easier target over there. Then somehow, he lost his concentration, pulled on a loose piece of stone, and stumbled backward. Channeling the errand momentum, Ace led with his right hand and cartwheeled backward leading into a chain of visually stunning backflips. Today we tend to see islands as backward places in comparison to the mainland. They lashed out with a kick to Matt's stomach that sent him stumbling backward, and almost immediately launched a spin kick at his head. The monster took to flight and fell backward, hitting the ground and rolling to his feet. The backward tilt of the stroke plane elevates flight force during the upstroke by increasing the aerodynamic angle of attack. By tossing in too many forward-moving leaps and high kicks, you risk forcing her nimble feet to tap-dance even farther backward. Any group of people that can't even follow simple directions must come from a terribly backward state. I have come along in the middle of the backward and forward discussion on waitressing and the hospitality industry in St Lucia. Unable to keep his feet, he fell backward, into the icy cold water of the bay. Show More Sentences As a specialty dancer for Ziegfeld she performed backward walkovers leading the elephants on to the stage. This doesn't mean you have to stretch until you can perform a split or do a backward walkover. I didn't have very much time to think into this though because suddenly someone jumped on me, knocking us both backward. He says that she has heard him speak in High German, Akkadian, and Aramaic which Peter interprets as his going backward through many past lives. In this posture, the bird hops backward on the perch, moving upward if the perch is inclined. The reappearance of road gangs in Alabama revived painful images of the state and the South as a backward and racist region. The real giveaway is the female's hidden pouch, albeit backward opening, for rearing its young. The moment the engine is speeded up the clutch comes in, backward movement is checked and the car gathers way up the hill. They have contributed more than enough to society, and deserve better than to be branded backward and too lazy to learn English. The feet are zygodactylous, with two toes pointed forward and two toes pointed backward. The feet of most woodpeckers are large and zygodactylous, meaning two toes point forward and two backward on each foot. This looking backward and preference for bygone days involved more than nostalgic or homesick longings. The back seats can be moved forward and backward, to make the most of luggage space or rear legroom. In dromaeosaurs and birds, the pubic boot extends caudally and the pubis evolved a retroverted, or backward directed, position. The backward and forward stretching lobes and saddles actually provide resistance to pressure perpendicular to the septum. Next, step backward with your left leg into a reverse lunge and bring the ball to your left hip. I fell backward onto the bed and winced as the pain shot up my torso from my injured leg. The awareness created among the backward communities has kindled their interest in conditions in other parts of the world. In the morning she walks away to her new life without a backward look. When this accessory protein interaction is defined so that it acts as a ratchet, backward slippage can be prevented with minimal interference with forward progression. Show More Sentences At last it was me who ended the kiss, stepped backward, out of her reach. Unfortunately, by comparison with the other students, I was quite backward, and so bad at mathematics in particular that I was kept down an entire year. Uterine sacculation consists of a transitory pouch or sac-like structure developing from an abnormal forward or backward rotation of the uterine fundus. The gates were protected by an ingenious system of re-entrants and switchbacks, designed to lead any attacker backward and forward under a rain of missiles. Here it should also be noted that it is wrong to depict one's religious community as more liberal and progressive and another community as more regressive and backward. Life is a scavenger hunt run backward as well as forward, a race to comprehend. It functions during the alternating contractions of muscles on either side of the body that enable the worm to wiggle backward with a smooth wavelike motion. On this occasion my head was in a more backward, downwards position and the water was poured on for a longer time. The state government will implement the recommendations of the other backward classes commission regarding reservation in government jobs to ensure their uplift. Coupled with Romney exuding a belief that this is a country that can still move forward, not backward. It was followed by a riderless black horse, with a pair of Mr Reagan's favourite boots turned backward in the stirrups, symbolising the death of a military leader. Lazily, Bren watched slumped backward into the cool, itching grass, hands entwined behind once bright hair that had been lightened by long hours under a summer sun. Journalism may need some long-faced fellows to look backward and tell us how things have gone badly, but that species is in more than adequate supply. But it also represents the Achilles heel of a company that loves to look backward more than it does forward. You will notice here that you are driving your body forward into the backfist rather than sinking backward as was illustrated in Part I of this series of articles. All three species use the digging technique of jumping backward off of both feet at the same time, which really stirs up the soil, leaf litter, or grass. The camera dollied backward along the length of the tower's staircase while simultaneously its lens zoomed forward. So finding that, and finding the arrangement that was forward and backward at once, was difficult. Authoritarianism And backward Priorities There does not need to be a HealthCare.gov, and there need be no state-run websites. Now benny lifted his head up, slapped his knee, and laughed so hard that he almost tumbled over backward. Show More Sentences His speeches, which he wrote himself, were frequently brilliant, even if they too often pointed backward instead of forward. The storyline jumps forward and backward in time in non-linear fragments. He was booking through a parking lot recently when a car lurched backward. The compact cat made one short, inconceivably fast motion, and the overbearing ferret jerked backward then collapsed to the pavement in a limp heap. The first, by the choreographer Sarah Michelson, consisted of several dancers walking backward in circles for well over an hour. When I finally pull him off her, we begin an arm-locked waltz across the glass-scattered floor, until my feet slip in their own blood and I topple backward onto the waterbed. However, even today most of the people in India were very backward, steeped in casteism and communalism and even vote on these basis, said Katju. The occasional backward movement of planets is evidence they revolve around the sun. Our spirits, biggened by their griefs and fears, Sadden and dwindle, with their backward view, All they behold. Or he can walk cross-handed following the principle of the cross-legged walk. In this variation, he can move forward, backward, or sideways. His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault. She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle. Mainstream Europeans regarded the Irish as relatively barbarous and backward. Use the step backward icon again and experiment with the other three icons, drawing overlapping shapes. Lather, rinse, repeat. A number of acrobatic figures can be employed, including forward and backward somersaults over swords. It has been passed down through the generations and Spenser views this system as a native backward custom which must be destroyed. If the ball is hit into the backward area, the batter may not pass first post until the ball is returned to the forward area. It is often said that Russia was militarily weak, technologically backward and administratively incompetent. He embraces her, but a shadowed figure rises from the trapdoor of the tower, startling Judy, who steps backward and falls to her death. Still, Sweden remained a poor and economically backward country in which barter was the means of exchange. Show More Sentences As each curve reaches the back fin, backward force is applied to the water, and in conjunction with the fins, moves the fish forward. However, when they flee, they swim backward quickly by curling and uncurling their abdomens. The enemy, outnumbered, outmetalled, outfed, outmanoeuvred, outfought, was being driven backward by foes invisible as well as visible. An engine rotates the paddle wheel in the water to produce thrust, forward or backward as required. The foot of a passerine has three toes directed forward and one toe directed backward, called anisodactyl arrangement. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward, and laterally. It is interesting to integrate the orbit solutions backward to the 1992 perijove to see how closely the fragments come together. Lenin believed that the USSR would never overtake the developed world if it remained as technologically backward as it was upon its founding. Rain dances are often regarded as outdated, backward, unused, and irrelevant practices. The animal relies on the forward and backward motions of its head and neck to maintain balance and the counter momentum while galloping. The dancer moves two steps forward and one step backward to the rhythmic sound of drums. It consists of six bars pointing forward representing the Sestieri of the city, and one that points backward representing the Giudecca. The rearmost member of the strike team walked backward to guard them from a surprise attack from behind. The ram reciprocate and thus cutting tool held in tool holder move forward and backward over the work piece. For patients prone to retropulsion, wearing shoes with high heels may diminish or prevent the backward stepping. Many of the best new writers seem openly ashamed of their backward Skiffy nationality. A starburst of red exploded on his chest and he flew backward a good six or seven feet. Then the development of the home country was neglected for some wildcat idea of bringing up the backward people of other lands. There has been a lot of talk about leaning forward and backward. Weisberg, who traces Bush's sins backward to his ancestors, may be engaging in a reverse form of Whiggism. Show More Sentences He lovingly paints his homeland as a backward, racist, women-hating, Jew-baiting domain filled with inbred idiots and trashy prostitutes. Reread and heard again in this context, the utterances of Coriolanus's backward voice seem especially misguided, reprovable. And the entire seat unit can be slid forward or backward by up to 90mm to suite all levels of lankiness. In these stories, desai casts her gaze backward to conjure a fading era. If they have problems with their stride it can cause retropulsion where they're falling backward. And three overs later Moore cut a long hop from James Franklin, his first ball back, straight to backward square. A luger generates momentum by grasping handles on either side of the track, rocking forward and backward, and then giving a powerful push. The hosts' wicketkeeper, Niall O'Brien, walked on 22 as he mistimed his scoop shot off Wood and was easily caught by Ervine at backward point. He has the same high grip, hits the ball from backward point to widish mid-off, plays the short ball pretty well and has that effective shot to cow corner. Let them be driven backward, and put to shame, that wish me evil. The gait of a cerebellar patient in the majority of cases is chiefly trunkal. The trunk may go backward, or forward, forward and to one side, or simply to one side. Outside, saltimbanques of snow were leaping up and flipping backward. In the thoracic region, the transverse processes stand backward, on a plane considerably behind that of the same processes in the cervical and lumbar regions. Its standing as an economically backward agricultural region meant that it obtained support from Belgium's membership of the European Union and its predecessors. With television helicopters circling above, Perez got out of the passenger door and walked backward to the bridge railing with one boy at his side. The absence of backward branching represents the settledness of the past. But a policy at once liberal and progressive at one turn was reactionary and backward at the next, creating new elites and confirming old attitudes. A Monte Carlo simulation was produced to better understand CLAS's backward angle detection of K mesons produced from the phi meson photoproduction process. This pseudomedieval Grand Kremlin Palace may be the most apt symbol of a regime that was trying to go backward all the while it was going forward. However, due to bad maintenance, much of the road, water and Soviet civil aviation transport were outdated and technologically backward compared to the First World. Show More Sentences The Germans crowded into a phalanx and began to push the Romans backward, even though the latter jumped up on the shields of the enemy to thrust downward. There is a popular prejudice that stereotypes speakers as unsophisticated and even backward, due possibly to the deliberate and lengthened nature of the accent. The swept wing is just a straight wing swept backward or forwards. At transonic speeds, near the speed of sound, it helps to sweep the wing backward or forwards to reduce drag from supersonic shock waves as they begin to form. The subducting slab undergoes backward sinking due to the negative buoyancy forces causing a retrogradation of the trench hinge along the surface. Passing in rugby league may only be in a backward or sideways direction. The enactment of this law will be a great step backward for our country. Proof of the similarity of the skills is that within two sessions, he is not only cartwheeling, but doing backward flips off the beatboard and then off the mat. Furthermore, there are still rather backward opinions in our society about the role of a translator. A translator is often regarded as a linguistic dogsbody. As the charge exploded I saw the aasvogel give a kind of backward twist. Examples from Classical Literature But she dared not go backward and forward between her baby and the diphtheritic children. The co-ordinator sent us here to find a method of bringing backward cultures to industrialization. Phil and I had been classmates in the dark backward and abysm, and we were still, in a manner of speaking, friends. When the foot passes backward and medially, the head of the talus projects on the outer part of the dorsum, resting on the cuboid. The hard palate extends horizontally from the gums backward, and is continued as the soft palate. Looking backward once more they saw Anaheim, dissolving in the distance and looking like a grove of trees upon the low plains. Her people are backward, and, at least in Cuzco and Arequipa, I should say the dirtiest in the world. In my own I can only say that Jack's beanstalk was a backward plant in comparison. The hag pursued him, moving backward and pulling after her the partly dressed hide of a black-tailed deer. As for Shasta, he did not once look backward to observe what his passengers were doing. Then, slinging the sack up on his shoulder, he walked toward the door, giving Sim a friendly backward glance as he went out. The city of London has, until within a few years, been backward, in this sanatory movement. She'll ne'er backward linger, this land of our dads, for she is a dinger at nailing the scads. I made a step backward, drew one of my pistols from my pocket, and cocked it. He begins jabbering like a schizophrenic parrot reading a Sanskrit dictionary backward! The displacement backward of the lamina cribrosa may cause that structure to lie behind the outer surface of the sclera. We are very, very backward in Donegal, but not nearly so bad as in the south and west. Their actuarial condition appears to be backward, but to show indications of improvement. He laughed boisterously and drunkenly as he spoke and lurched backward over the sands. A back rest would throw one forward in a frontward lurch, and give no support in case of a backward one. Show More Sentences Among rites of the backward races, none, perhaps, so closely resembles the Eleusinian mysteries as the tradition of the Pawnees. The atmospherical, tidal wave, as it ebbs and flows, seems to carry the needle backward and forward with it. But they are backward in fledging, chickens bred from immature fowls being the most backward. And, to the familiar thump, thump of the electrical discharge, the atom smasher took up its backward journey once more. If the leafwork on the helm were tossed up backward, it would hide the fillet. Only the interposition of Grant's Presidential veto prevented this first positive backward step in the direction of fiat money. How could you brook to go backward, instead of forward, in those duties which you now so exemplarily perform? To my astonishment it was all backward, and I found myself wondering if it were a Chinese feature story. I endeavoured to avoid the encounter, and ran backward, fending him off with my knife. He was dragged backward and knew that he was going through a secret panel near the chimney breast. He is as erratic in his flight as a clay pigeon, though it is tolerably safe to assume that he will not jump backward. The dog-musher indicated White Fang with a backward thrust of his thumb. They seesaw backward and forward, first one way and then the other. It would not be in accord with creative energy that I should go backward. But who shall cause the shadow to go backward upon the dial of Ahaz? It first opened my eyes to antiquity, the 'dark backward and abysm of time. The coffin bone and navicular bone sink a little and rotate backward. It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house. The Nipe arced backward in a half somersault and landed flat on his back. Then he bore the armless torso of the mech backward and fell upon it. Show More Sentences The astragalus, and with it the foot, is displaced backward. The recoil, catching him in a bad posture, knocked him backward. Fair on each shield struck a lance, and backward reeled their holders. Have the children of the well-to-do been backward in volunteering? The Dauphine was not backward in repeating this word for word. Baby Rosamond bundled out backward, dropping boffin as she did so. Crowds are scattering backward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. Unfortunately, the cantilena in the second number still points backward. In gratitude for charlotte's word she sank backward in a long obeisance. They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared they might be followed. He bent backward and forward stiffly from the hips to get the kinks out of himself. Without a backward glance at the awe-struck soldiers Tarzan leaped the trench and was gone. I've seen unfortunate little creatures left to servants, or backward ones pushed forward, when it's real cruelty. There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. It was not easy, that backward tramp through the jungle, especially as night had fallen. I was walking backward, in a crouching position, when I heard Antonia scream. He took a step backward and began to pull off his dinner jacket. Levers and purchases fascinated him, and his mind roved backward to hand-spikes and blocks and tackles at sea. Nor were the others at all backward in emulating so good an example. A man will not be tempted to say the Lord's Prayer backward to please the devil, if he doesn't want the devil's services. Show More Sentences Without a backward look he shambled down the hill with the others. He clutched the handhold and rolled backward, as he had seen the men do. Taking off his cap, he bowed low and opened the door of the prison, and Pinocchio ran out and away, with never a look backward. Her face darkened with a vindictive despair, and she paced the little cage of a room backward and forward, softly. No sideward glance they cast nor backward did Margaret ever look. His een turnt backward in his heid and the day gaed black aboot him. I know that hellen and all of you are very backward in that respect. I moved backward, hand on my skean, braced for a sudden rush. But behind him was Dave, likewise straining backward, and behind the sled was Francois, pulling till his tendons cracked. After the word had gone forth, hui was never backward in his deeds. We have reliable backward linkages with some of the best manufacturers of kippot and our Mazel skull cap is considered as one of the best in the market. He put up his hands to protect his face, but Jurgis, lunging with all the power of his arm and body, struck him fairly between the eyes and knocked him backward. He had scarcely finished, when D'Artagnan made such a furious lunge at him that if he had not sprung nimbly backward, it is probable he would have jested for the last time. He swung his long arms backward and forwards, cracking his fingers, and talked unintelligibly to himself, hoarse, guttural murmurings without sense or import. In my own case there followed my acquaintance with these authors certain Boeotian years, when if I did not go backward I scarcely went forward in the paths I had set out upon. Gropingly backward into the past reached the fingers of memory, until at last they seized upon a faint picture, faded and yellow with the passing years. Then Kaa would give way limply, and Mowgli, with both quick-moving feet, would try to cramp the purchase of that huge tail as it flung backward feeling for a rock or a stump. The little fox and the rook were as happy and busy as they were, and the robin and his mate flew backward and forward like tiny streaks of lightning. Columbus's becalmed caravels, slowly pushed backward by the Caribbean seaweed, become a metafictional metaphor for the dialogic reconstruction of Columbus's complete life. The passenger rides backward going up, and faces forward going down. Show More Sentences Ponta lashed out, right and left, savagely as ever, and though Joe blocked the blows, such was the force of them that he was knocked backward several steps. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of backward? Words that rhyme with backward What is the adverb for backward? What is the adjective for backward? What is the noun for backward? Translations for backward Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words backveld backus backups backup plan back-up back up backwardation backward-looking backwardly backwardness backwards backwash 8-letter Words Starting With b ba bac back backw backwa backwar