backwards
Example Sentences
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She tripped backwards over a wooden platform, and I was surprised that she was able to get up, but the biggest surprise was how it affected her emotionally.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“You play against a really good defense on the road, going backwards is going to be tough,” said Stafford, who completed 30 of 55 passes for 390 yards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Burnham appealed for "calm on all sides", adding in an interview with BBC television that that "big gains" had been made in Northern Ireland "and we don't want to see things go backwards".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"Her head could only grow forwards and backwards, it wasn't circular like a brain, so they put part of the skull at the side to make her a more normal-shaped head," explains Bethany.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Thus we are told ‘the one and only error of general principle which the historian can commit...is to read history not forwards, as it happened, but backwards.’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
