The MiGs dropped like hawks stooping on their prey, four silver-gray aircraft with backswept delta wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carrie]

He wore the latest backswept wig, and his coat was cut velvet, embroidered all over with hundreds of frivolous silk butterflies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

The sleek, backswept wings, the double bubble of the canopy perched almost too far up on the aircraft, its sleek, aerodynamically sound nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic Fire]

The clerk was a small man of indeterminate age, and in spite of working in a wig shop, his own black-died backswept hair was thin and flecked with dandruff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babylon Nights] Reference

As he accelerated, his wings folded themselves to their sixty-eight-degree backswept configuration, and a moment later he slid smoothly through the sound barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Countdown]

He described the aircraft as being silver in color (except for the underside of the tail and nose which were painted black), and having single, backswept tapered wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference

Tombstone could see the silvery arc of one of the Russian's outboard turboprops, could see the markings painted on the backswept wing, a huge red star bordered in white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carrie]

Swamp buffaloes are slate gray, droopy necked, and ox-like, with massive backswept horns that make them favorite subjects for postcards and wooden statuettes in the Far East.    From Wordnik.com.  [1 Introduction] Reference

Primarily artifacts of the 1950s, rocketship movies inevitably featured square-jawed American heroes, evil villains (who were more than likely Godless Commies) and sleek, cigar-shaped craft fitted out with graceful, backswept fins and needle-shaped antennae at the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simple Tricks and Nonsense: March 2004 Archives] Reference

The Sportage is maybe the most flamboyant, with dramatic side fender flares and a backswept rear end.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Later I looked through the window and saw some things that looked like birds, with dogs 'heads and backswept wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Signs of the Times] Reference

Debra Messing did not follow the elegant backswept hair trend, but opted instead for big bushy curls wrapped in a ponytail.    From Wordnik.com.  [CTV News RSS Feed] Reference

The old double wings were suitable for slow single piston planes but would impose a severe drag on faster jets; they need backswept wings with adjustable leading and trailing ends to adjust the wing shape to effect maximal lift at low speed and minimal drag at high speed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Malaysia] Reference

Then Aerune swept through Toni's guard, hammering her to the ground with one blow from his black mailed fist and catching Jos" off-guard with a backswept blow from his longsword.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirits White As Lightning]

(Lynch was in the room, too, sitting on a couch, wearing his usual white-shirt-and-black-jacket ensemble and his snazzy backswept hairdo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference