backward
Example Sentences
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The horn arrangement is solid, the lyrics are not—the clunky “Is it your eyes that light my sky?” sounds like it was written backward starting with the obvious rhyme.
As they move, that surrounding gas pushes against them like a powerful headwind, sweeping their own gas backward into trailing strands.
From Science Daily
He gave me a thumbs-up, walking backward for a couple of steps.
From Literature
I straightened my spine to my full five feet seven inches and strode out without a backward glance.
From Literature
The negativity dissipates as a young man walks into the clubhouse, baseball cap on backward for the moment, energetic and respectful and joyful and supremely confident.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
