move backward

Example Sentences

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These waves travel forward, strike a reflector, and then move backward, much like light reflecting between mirrors in a laser.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2026

Because when he’s gotten chances, like the one in front of him with the Lakers, he doesn’t move backward.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

The officers began ordering all of us, student reporters and protesters alike, to move backward away from the students who formed the human chain, threatening to arrest us if we did not.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2024

If the council cannot accelerate its reviews and clarify council deliberation procedures, we will move backward in meeting Clean Energy Transition Act requirements, discourage investment and good jobs, and increase ratepayer costs.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2024

Planets course around the sky throughout the year, but every so often they stop, move backward, and then shoot ahead once more.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife