backwards
Example Sentences
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Indeed, the discontent surfaced even in the first half as Spurs fans chanted "sideways and backwards everywhere we go" as the ball was passed around aimlessly.
From BBC
“What we now call ‘Italian cuisine’ is a retrospective construction, projected backwards as if it had always existed,” he says.
From Salon
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
