backwards

Example Sentences

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“If you dove off a skyscraper backwards, that’s what it felt like for five seconds,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

But the worry for Liverpool is they have gone backwards.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026

When I was born, I had a traumatic birth — I was backwards, I had the cord around, I was hyperactive.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

He published it at age 59, when his own adventures in nervous-system regulation allowed him to bend his formerly stiff body backwards into a plow pose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

And of course it is only before royalties that people walk backwards.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis