backwards

Example Sentences

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The move requires a skater to launch themselves into a jump, spin four and a half times in the air, and cleanly land backwards.

From BBC

What you “see” is the combined effect of sight and your ear canals telling you that you are titling backwards.

From Science Daily

"There were trains arriving but they were going backwards to go forwards," she said.

From BBC

“I speak to it, like I’m riffing in a jazz band, backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards,” Huntley said.

From Los Angeles Times

Doncic was hoping backwards on one leg after he took the shot with 7:58 remaining in the first quarter and slipped off the edge of the court.

From Los Angeles Times