Sentences with backwards
back·ward
B b - The diver flipped over backwards into the water.
- Without so much as a backwards glance, he steered her towards the car.
- I feel like things are going backwards in so many ways where girls are playing all these idiot characters.
- For that reason, theoretical physicists are focused, instead, on unravelling the mysteries of travelling backwards in time, not forwards.
- He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards.
- Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards.
- In AM, use backward
- The patient was slipping backwards
- The backwards lettering on emergency vehicles makes it possible to read in the rear-view mirror.
- Modern medicine regards the use of leeches as a backwards practice.
- He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field.
- The clock did not work because the battery was inserted backwards.
- The tour guide walked backwards while droning on to the bored seniors.
- Counting backward from 100.
- To look backward over one's earlier mistakes.
- Since the overthrow of the president the country has moved steadily backward.
- A backward movement; a backward journey.
- A backward learner; a backward country.
- A backward lover.
- He knew his lesson backward and forward.