backwards

Example Sentences

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The track was still damp and the weather was drizzly when he went off, spinning and hitting the barrier backwards.

From BBC

Indeed, the discontent surfaced even in the first half as Spurs fans chanted "sideways and backwards everywhere we go" as the ball was passed around aimlessly.

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“What we now call ‘Italian cuisine’ is a retrospective construction, projected backwards as if it had always existed,” he says.

From Salon

While nationally progress is being made, 31 hospital trusts have gone backwards and another 17 have made little progress out of the 129 services examined.

From BBC

Norah Lake, the owner and farmer at Vermont's Sweetland Farms, says to get a successful harvest, "there's a lot of looking forward and then backwards and then forwards and then backwards in crop farming".

From BBC