forwards

Example Sentences

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Standing only 5 feet 8, Johnson has established herself as a defensive menace, guarding both forwards and guards.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

"We had a period of going backwards and forwards, and nothing happening," Victoria said.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

BBC Sport looks at some of the league's best-ever forwards and asks you to decide where he ranks.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

The bureau collects complaints and forwards almost all of them to the companies, requiring a response.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Thus we are told ‘the one and only error of general principle which the historian can commit...is to read history not forwards, as it happened, but backwards.’

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton