| The finely sculptured wood handle of the knife is in the form of a head, with inlaid beads for eyes, a backswept hairdo and metal neck rings. |
| It had fangs sticking out of its upper and lower jaw, which was common enough, but no wings straddling the row of spikes that also ran, backswept, over its back. |
| The ships were the kind of swift feluccas preferred by the desert warlords, with odd-looking lateen sails and long, backswept oars pointing downwards into the water. |
| The large eye-catching flowers 1 to 4 inches across are usually red and yellow and have six backswept, often crinkled, petals and protruding stamens. |
| As an Internet entrepreneur who has married above her station, Ms. Bleeth vamps it up in crystal-studded Versace, her frosty makeup and backswept hair a cartoonish variation on the familiar genre. |
| This airflow creates a drag force that is substantially reduced by winglets and backswept wingtips resulting in increased flying range and reduced fuel consumption. |
