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Short sentences using backed

They backed water. [5]

Sentences containing backed two or more times

The horse backed us into the ditch, and would probably have backed himself into the wagon, if I had continued. [4]

More example sentences with the word backed in them

By some odd whim of the weather the wind had backed around into the east, gathering the clouds once more. [9]
Acknowledged that you were afraid, and backed shamefully out? [5]
So far as we observed temperance prevailed, backed by public-opinion. [4]
In our time we have organized that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
In our time we have organised that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
We knew she was being overrun with applications for places in it, and that these applications were backed by great names and weighty influence, whereas we had nothing of the sort to recommend us. [5]
Against this mound was backed a little temple in the rear of the Palace. [11]
Suddenly he scrambled up, moaning, as if the scourge itself had fastened on him, backed into the house, and slammed the door in my face. [9]
He then backed up against Pompey's statue, and squared himself to receive his assailants. [5]
She hurried back to the house just in time to reach the hall as the omnibus backed up. [9]
When he got to me he gave me a steady look for a moment or two, and then rounded to and backed up to me, saying: "Ease this down for a fellow, will you? [5]
He hoped that there was no offence,--thought it might have been mutooally agreeable, conclooded he would give up the idee of a colation, and backed himself out as if unwilling to expose the less guarded aspect of his person to the risk of accelerating impulses. [6]
Mr. Thornburg blew the whistle, in acknowledgment, backed the steamer out, and made for it. [5]
We shut off the power, and backed up and stood over them, and then we see that they was all dead. [5]
When he reached the palace-gate he begged one of the civic guard to conduct him to his brother, and as he backed his request with a gift of money he was led at once to the man whom he sought. [10]
She backed from the Nile mud, lunged free. [11]
Jones, on about the middle of February, backed out altogether, laying the blame chiefly on Mackay and the others, who, he said, had decided not to invest. [5]
As we reached the lodge we heard the whistle, and we backed up against one side of the platform as the train pulled up at the other. [9]
And that was the end of Mr. Dix for me; when he had backed himself out in chagrin at having lost his ten per centum, my feelings got the better of me. [9]
He got aboard the boat, her decks already blue with troops, and as she backed out with her whistle screaming, the last objects he saw were the gaunt old man and the broad-shouldered young man side by side on the edge of the landing. [9]
The pilots saw that they would be backed up by the captains and the underwriters anyhow, and so they wisely refrained from entering into entangling alliances. [5]
She backed him step by step into the middle of the bar-room, and then, while the wondering crowd closed up and gazed, she gave him such another tongue-lashing as never a cowed and shamefaced braggart got before, perhaps! [5]
The captain could stand upon the hurricane deck, in the pomp of a very brief authority, and give him five or six orders while the vessel backed into the stream, and then that skipper's reign was over. [5]
They obeyed him, some eagerly, some reluctantly, and by that time the train had backed down and the cushions had arrived. [9]
The recruiter-boat had run into a small nook on the rocky coast, under a high bank, above which stood a solitary hut backed by dense forest. [5]
From a military point of view, backed by the facts of history, I conceive that Jameson's military judgment was at fault. [5]
The boat backed out from New Orleans at four in the afternoon, and it was 'our watch' until eight. [5]
There is no other place in the world where merit is so quickly recognized as in the Stock Exchange, especially if it is backed by brass and a good head. [4]
The door was opened by the identical footman who had so insolently offered me money, and I think he recognized me, for he backed away as he told me the ladies were not at home. [9]
But all at once a wagon backed and bumped against the curb in front of him, and Eliphalet's head dropped as if it had been struck by the wheel. [9]
Would you go on believing in them in the face of able arguments backed by collated facts and instances? [5]
Hodder looked out of the window of the sleeper to read the sign 'Marcion' against the yellow brick of the station set down in the prairie mud, and flanked by a long row of dun-colored freight cars backed up to a factory. [9]
Venters backed out of the door and waited, hearing, as no sound had ever before struck into his soul, the rapid, heavy steps of the rustler. [13]
He backed out of that gate and steered for another one on the other side of the street. [5]
He caught sight of me, halted, backed, and stood staring with widened eyes. [9]
He got an oar and backed with all his strength towards the stern, the anchor holding well. [11]
And I might never have comprehended that the American Revolution was brought on and fought by a headstrong king, backed by unscrupulous followers who held wealth above patriotism. [9]
Frank rashly promised it, and was promptly told by Marion that it couldn't be; and she was backed by Captain Vidall, who said it had already been tabooed, and Frank wasn't to come in and ask for favours or expect them. [11]
But he backed himself against the temptation, and won. [11]
It would prevent him riding to hounds again, and at his suggestion, backed by Lord Dunfolly and Lord Dargan, Gaston became Master of the Hounds. [11]
Somehow, with Chiltern's help, she made her way to a waiting omnibus backed up against the boards. [9]
Trixy Brent has given Lula Chandos his box at the Horse Show, and Lula would never, never forgive me if I backed out. [9]
The lusty young fellow apologized; but the Deacon's face did not come right, and his theology backed round several points in the direction of total depravity. [6]
It was Marcus' fate to start among the first lot, and, to the horror of those who had backed his chances, Hippias, the hero of the Hippodrome, was his rival, with the four famous bays. [10]
He drifted, by easy stages, into revealments of the river's marvelous eccentricities of one sort and another, and backed them up with some pretty gigantic illustrations. [5]
He was never diverted from his course by such men, and while he was loyal to those who had backed him, he vowed that he would be independent of these wooden souls in the end. [11]
In the streets currents of excited men flowed and backed and eddied, backwoodsmen and farmers in the familiar hunting shirts of hide or homespun, and lawyers in dress less rude. [9]
And as these charges were backed up by what seemed to be good and sufficient, evidence, they were believed with national unanimity. [5]
His wife, backed by the H.B.C., urges that a relief party be sent to look for him. [11]
Mr. Worthington, backed by other respectable property interests, would fight this monster of iniquity to the death, and release the state from his thraldom. [9]
A dam of brush and logs and mud and stones backed the stream into a little lake. [13]
The boat had backed out from St. Louis and was 'straightening down;' I ascended to the pilot-house in high feather, and very proud to be semi- officially a member of the executive family of so fast and famous a boat. [5]
Hammond, our president, backed me up, and Rogers of the wool people. [9]
If I were backed by enough of his sort, I would make a strike for the welfare of this country, and try to prove myself its loyalest citizen by making a wholesome change in its system of government. [5]
When the Boreas backed away from the land to continue her voyage up the river, the Hawkinses were richer by twenty-four hours of experience in the contemplation of human suffering and in learning through honest hard work how to relieve it. [5]
One morning, just at daybreak, the last trip she ever made, they took her rudder aboard to mend it; I didn't know anything about it; I backed her out from the wood-yard and went a-weaving down the river all serene. [5]
We got in and the fellow backed out into the harbor. [5]
I couldn't sleep, and so I come along up-street 'bout midnight, a-turning it all over, and when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think. [5]
I have invented and patented a pretty good sort of scrap-book (I think) but I have backed down from letting it be known as mine just at present --for I can't stand being under discussion on a play and a scrap-book at the same time! [5]
Old James Wing and I have got a trust company organized, and the building up, and the man Wing wanted for president backed out. [9]
So we backed and filled once more, passing the Englishman close aboard, himself being aback at the time. [9]
I backed up against the wall of the temple, and waited. [5]
Perhaps it was a momentary sympathy for beauty in distress which made the Master say, as he backed from the doorway with stealthy step: "Gatd'en'ale, 'tis well she has enough to live on, and to provide for what's to come! [11]

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