move backward

Example Sentences

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These waves travel forward, strike a reflector, and then move backward, much like light reflecting between mirrors in a laser.

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2026

Because when he’s gotten chances, like the one in front of him with the Lakers, he doesn’t move backward.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2024

If the council cannot accelerate its reviews and clarify council deliberation procedures, we will move backward in meeting Clean Energy Transition Act requirements, discourage investment and good jobs, and increase ratepayer costs.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 18, 2024

And that card, it would seem, confers powers that move backward through time and space to justify all past and future violations as well.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

Then, with a clank and a clang, it began to move backward, and that was how we went down the street, the trolley backing up before us as we marched on.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli