backwards

Example Sentences

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While nationally progress is being made, 31 hospital trusts have gone backwards and another 17 have made little progress out of the 129 services examined.

From BBC

Norah Lake, the owner and farmer at Vermont's Sweetland Farms, says to get a successful harvest, "there's a lot of looking forward and then backwards and then forwards and then backwards in crop farming".

From BBC

On fourth down, trailing the Los Angeles Rams by a touchdown with under a minute to play, Williams was heading backwards as pass rushers zeroed in.

From The Wall Street Journal

But, elsewhere, there's just an anger about a club on the drift, making lousy decisions, going backwards domestically and in Europe while sitting on close to £80m in the bank.

From BBC

But he's found a way to drag his team forward when his counterpart has only succeeded in taking his players backwards in the pursuit of something that only he can see.

From BBC