backside

Example Sentences

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And have the most important play happen while some latecomer blocks your view with his backside while trying to find his seat.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

It might be a game where Arsenal need a little kick up the backside, though.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

“Of course, being a racist has been illegal in our formation since 1948. The same goes for sexual harassment,” Hegseth offered, possibly to cover his backside, only to expose it again a few sentences later.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2025

On shimmering disco anthem Got To Have Love, he warns against squandering relationships: "When love disappears / Life disappears / and you sit on your backside / for 25 years."

From BBC • Sep. 10, 2025

Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes later, his leg was stiff, the backside of his jeans damp from the grass, and the graveyard hadn’t revealed itself to be anything more than a graveyard.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby