backward
Example Sentences
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The movie truck rattled behind me on the street, the backward lettering of Metro Studio flashing in its reflection in the shop window.
From Literature
I step backward on the stoop, hand involuntarily moving to my heart.
From Literature
Its legs angle backward like an ostrich’s, increasing its stability and lifting power.
Not only does she talk, but she recites venerable nursery rhymes, backward.
Justin, the believer, is instantly alarmed by how these eerie tapes escalate from cute banter to ghostly crying babies and backward incantations.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
