backwards

Example Sentences

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"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

King Charles III has warned the world is "rapidly going backwards" in curbing climate change and biodiversity loss, in an Amazon Prime documentary getting a Windsor Castle premiere Wednesday.

From Barron's

The track was still damp and the weather was drizzly when he went off, spinning and hitting the barrier backwards.

From BBC