We found 42 examples of how to use backward in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 42.
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1. | The dog walked backward. | |
2. | Social conditions are going backward rather than forward. | |
3. | The actress fell backward over the stage. | |
4. | He fell backward. | |
5. | He looked backward over his shoulder. | |
6. | He bent over backward to please his wife. | |
7. | He is backward in science. | |
8. | She is backward in expressing her opinion. | |
9. | It is important to maintain backward compatibility with software that was written to run on the former system. | |
10. | For a long time, society was strongly hierarchical and unequal, primarily composed of peasants. The most backward, impoverished segment of the population, they were crushed by the weight of taxes, wars, and famines. | |
11. | Tom took a step backward. | |
12. | I wonder how someone can still defend a backward and cruel dictatorship such as that of Lukashenko, who has managed to have every one of his opponents beaten up and imprisoned. It's just beyond me ! | |
13. | Tom glanced backward over his shoulder and waved goodbye. | |
14. | Tom stumbled and fell backward. | |
15. | If you are not going forward, you're going backward. | |
16. | I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. | |
17. | Tom took three steps backward. | |
18. | Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there. | |
19. | It's not possible to travel backward in time. | |
20. | Look backward! | |
21. | All new consoles should be backward compatible. | |
22. | This is all backward to me. | |
23. | It's backward. | |
24. | Today, dangerous forces do threaten to pull the world backward, and our progress is not inevitable. | |
25. | I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. |