You can lean over backward so far that you fall flat on your face. From LearnThat.org. [Ben H. Bagdikian]
It's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A backward view. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A backward lover. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I knew the word, but I had the definition backward. From Wordnik.com. [Born Standing Up] Reference
Hatamura favors what he calls "backward thinking" - looking at a previous step in the process to see if it worked properly. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Round wended his steed, and spake a word backward. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
Indeed, it seems a step backward from the shuttle. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Mr. Augustine - NASA Watch] Reference
Remember: “STRESSED” spelled backward is “DESSERTS”. From Wordnik.com. [Chocolate] Reference
You can also get. pdf files for the last 15 days, so searching backward is easy. From Wordnik.com. [Access to La Nuova Venezia] Reference
Not a word backward, not a single quotidianus da nobis hodie out of place, right?. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Davy wailed, while Montana Kid and the policeman dragged him backward from the woodpiles. From Wordnik.com. [At the Rainbow's End] Reference
In fact the revolution has come only in backward agricultural countries like Russia and China. From Wordnik.com. [Europe Is Dying] Reference
Advanced technology in backward countries like the mixture of iron and clay of the statues feet. psikeyhackr. From Wordnik.com. [Ghost in the Shell vs. Matrix] Reference
In short, there is no "industry standard" because each system is calibrated backward from a particular press. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-01-01] Reference
Embassy in Kiev said Sunday's elections were a step backward from the February vote, which was widely judged free and fair. From Wordnik.com. [U.S. Criticizes Ukraine Vote] Reference
Gentlemen, there is one thing we do realize in backward Quebec from a national standpoint: it is the necessity of education. From Wordnik.com. [One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant] Reference
Yet Oxford could hardly be called backward-looking. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By President At Oxford University] Reference
Another reason Alabama is known as a backward state. From Wordnik.com. [Griffith: 'I can no longer align myself' with Dems] Reference
And this is exactly why Alabama is known as the backward state!!. From Wordnik.com. [Griffith: 'I can no longer align myself' with Dems] Reference
In Tamil Nadu, dalit Christians are classified as backward classes. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
It was a far call backward over nearly five decades of his teeming life. From Wordnik.com. [T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him] Reference
Yoga help Hollywood celebs age 'backward' celebrities to age "backward". From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to One long love affair with India] Reference
This has led to what may be described as a backward-sloping supply curve. From Wordnik.com. [The Perilous Price of Oil] Reference
She tossed a coin backward, then used it to Push herself slightly up and to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
It was propped open, and you could read his black-lettered name backward through the glass. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
How and whether the notion of backward causation has a role to play in physics has yet to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Backward Causation] Reference
If health care reform goes any slower it will be going backward, which is probably what Republicans want. From Wordnik.com. [Rep. Kline to Obama: 'start from scratch' on health care] Reference
Funny how so many so-called backward Third World countries have taken strides toward change faster than us. From Wordnik.com. [KeysNews.com -] Reference
"So I'd like to suggest we name this car, 'Hot Rod,' and maybe that's what we'll call the backward lap, too.". From Wordnik.com. [ThatsRacin.com: Homepage] Reference
A Pawn is called backward if he cannot advance far enough to be protected by fellow Pawns in an adjoining file. From Wordnik.com. [Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership] Reference
It must therefore be turned in a direction that may be called backward, the revolutions to the left instead of to the right. From Wordnik.com. [The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII.] Reference
Boone rearranged the letters in his name, spelling his first and last name backward, but keeping them in their proper order. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
But now we are in the midst of a strange kind of backward recession. From Wordnik.com. [Savings and Moan] Reference
I see his aircraft go into a kind of backward dive from a height of 600 feet and burst into flames. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
This is the kind of backward "tough" stuff being promoted by the incendiary McCain/Palin operation. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Supporters' Tires Slashed] Reference
AMANPOUR: Well, that's precisely the kind of backward logic that he's been trying to peddle for all of these years. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2003] Reference
Some questioned its efficacy, but most did not want to be stigmatised as "backward" for following an ancient and traditional practice. From Wordnik.com. [10 Next Steps] Reference
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