backward

Example Sentences

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By tracing its path backward over billions of years, they determined that the star originated in the Large Magellanic Cloud before eventually being pulled into the Milky Way.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

But her words reached backward, as if acknowledging both women—the one who endured and the one who emerged: Look at you.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

But you can’t make money by looking backward.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 13, 2026

Not only does she talk, but she recites venerable nursery rhymes, backward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

His eyes adjusted to the light—and then he leaped backward and smothered a yell of horror.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell