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backwards
adverb as in back; backward
Weak matches
adverb as in reverse to the usual way
Example Sentences
It was, he said, an "unprecedented and deeply worrying step backwards for women's rights and human rights in Europe".
One of the group “plunged her tusks up to the gums in the body of my Land-Rover . . . again she charged, and the Land-Rover was carried backwards at high speed for thirty-five yards.”
I’ve come way too far to go backwards, and I’m not just a puppet anymore.
Many fans' groups feel that they are not being listened to and that the club is going backwards, a feeling that has driven the fans to the point of mutiny.
“I wouldn’t be looking backwards at all for any motivation,’’ he said here Saturday.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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