move backward

Example Sentences

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“I think we are just going to move backward before we go forward,” Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and author of the newsletter Your Local Epidemiologist, told Salon.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

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

The officers began ordering all of us, student reporters and protesters alike, to move backward away from the students who formed the human chain, threatening to arrest us if we did not.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2024

I had never seen my mother move backward so fast.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls