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Sentences ending with backward

Whenever a climber tried to assist himself by the rope, it yielded and let him tumble backward. [5]
His life seemed to reel backward. [11]
Suddenly, something he saw made him lurch backward. [11]
It was Lincoln's own resolution and act; but practically it bound the nation, and permitted no step backward. [7]
But the way out of this, again, is forward, and not backward. [4]
The locomotive-boiler stood on end, and it and the whole locomotive were tilted sharply backward. [5]
Instead of advancing, he had seemed, since the defeat at Algiers, to go backward. [10]
It does no good, as people always find out by reflex action, to kick an inanimate thing that has offended, to smash a perverse watch with a hammer, to break a rocking-chair that has a habit of tipping over backward. [4]
Revolutions do not go backward. [7]
He then received Fay in his arms and stood a moment looking backward. [13]

Short sentences using backward

Looking backward, we see this. [4]
He was walking backward. [9]

More example sentences with the word backward in them

At any rate, you think you move them backward and forward at such a rate as your will determines, don't you?--On the contrary, they swing just as any other pendulums swing, at a fixed rate, determined by their length. [6]
Probably, therefore, it would not suit the American, whose imagination does not work so easily backward as forward, and who prefers to build his own nest rather than settle in anybody else's rookery. [4]
The long hall, which ran from street to street, was packed, the people surging backward and forward, and falling roughly against the mahogany pieces; and apologizing, and scolding, and swearing all in a breath. [9]
But how can we, when we have been intoxicated with many things; when we are drunk with success and experience; have hung on the fringe of unrighteousness; and know the world backward, and ourselves mercilessly? [11]
The old man was beside himself: moved the chair on which he was sitting noisily backward and forward, made efforts to control himself and not become vehement, but almost always did become vehement, scolded, and sometimes flung the exercise book away. [2]
Once when she was a little creature of three or four years she suddenly brought her tiny foot down upon the floor in an apparent outbreak of indignation, then fetched it a backward wipe, and stooped down to examine the result. [5]
It made him uneasy, and when anxiety had once taken root in his heart it sent its shoots forward and backward, and he remembered many things in which Eva had been different the day before. [10]
Nevertheless I did turn it over--a highly educated fear compelled me to do that--but succeeding days of cheerfulness and sunshine came bothering around, and within a month I had so drifted backward that again I was as lost and comfortable as ever. [5]
Houghton had had too many experiences backward and forward in the world, to be afflicted with littleness of mind. [11]
Presently she began to speak in a low, even voice, he looking down at her, his feet apart, his hand thrust backward towards the heat. [9]
Venters leaned forward to put his hand on Wrangle's neck, then backward to put it on his flank. [13]
Painfully, pausing frequently to ponder over these remnants, so eloquent of the fury of the struggle, slipping backward at every step and despite our care getting tangled in the wire, we made our way up the slope. [9]
She greatly desired to look backward towards De la Foret, but some good angel bade her not. [11]
They had happened to be looking towards the door when the man--Col. Selby--entered with his cane, and they looked at him, because he stopped as if surprised and frightened, and made a backward movement. [5]
From time to time he glanced backward, as a wise general in retreat calculating his chances and the power and speed of pursuers, and the moment for the last desperate burst. [13]
It stains backward through all the leaves we have turned over in the book of life, before its blot of tears or of blood is dry on the page we are turning. [6]
There is one thing that always puzzles me: as inheritors of the mentality of our reptile ancestors we have improved the inheritance by a thousand grades; but in the matter of the morals which they left us we have gone backward as many grades. [5]
From Beaver Creek they began to fight the war over again, backward and forward, much to Cynthia's edification, when her attention was distracted by the entrance of a street band of wind instruments. [9]
Write again--and if there is anything in this memorial of yours that refers to anything in particular, do not be backward about explaining it. [5]
Then he hopped the whole length of it back and forth on one foot, with his hands clasped over his eyes; and next he began to throw somersaults, both backward and forward, and threw twenty-seven. [5]
My report of the weather does not say much for the English May, but it is generally agreed upon that this is a backward and unpleasant spring. [6]
The vanguard of the mob, thrust on by increasing pressure from behind, tumbled backward the thin cordon of police, drew nearer and nearer the bayonets, while the soldiers grimly held their ground. [9]
As always happens the men, starting cheerfully, began to halt; murmurs were heard, there was a sense of confusion, and finally a backward movement. [2]
The officers directing the march rode backward and forward between the carts. [2]
After one passes the last of these he has a backward glimpse at the falls which is very pleasing--they rise in a seven-stepped stairway of foamy and glittering cascades, and make a picture which is as charming as it is unusual. [5]
When they saw the flag and heard the battle-cry there was a movement backward, as though this handful of men were an overwhelming army coming at them. [11]
It is evident that we are to have a backward season for grain. [5]
Valmond did not stir, but looked steadily at De la Riviere, and said slowly, dramatically, yet with a strange genuineness also: "The spirit of France, monsieur, the spirit of France looks not forward only, but backward, for her inspiration. [11]
She gave a step backward, and raised her frightened eyes to his. [9]
He took a step backward, and his eyes made an ugly shift. [9]
He emigrated from somewhat limited conditions in Vermont, at an early age, nearly half a century ago, and sought freedom for his natural development backward in the wilds of the Adirondacks. [4]
Higher up stood some Russian infantry, neither moving forward to protect the battery nor backward with the fleeing crowd. [2]
The smooth piston slides backward and forward as a lady might slip her delicate finger in and out of a ring. [6]
He was right; she made a motion backward, but he held her firmly, tenderly. [11]
Looking backward, Jane saw Tull's white horse not a mile distant, with riders strung out in a long line behind him. [13]
One or two rooms might be at the front, the rest crooked and cornered backward through in creasing and then decreasing darkness till they reached a light bedroom or kitchen at the rear. [8]
While the fettered pair were ascending the cliff backward, Joshua heard his name shouted in joyous accents, and directly after Ephraim, with a band of youthful warriors, came rushing down the height toward him. [10]
They glanced backward over their shoulders from time to time, apprehensively, as if they feared they might be followed. [5]
But the way out is not backward, but forward. [4]
It is not only going backward that the plain practical workman is liable to, if he will not look up and look around; he may go forward to ends he little dreams of. [3]
So she rode on without a backward glance at the beautiful grove of Cottonwoods. [13]
The little village of Yalta nestles at the foot of an amphitheatre which slopes backward and upward to the wall of hills, and looks as if it might have sunk quietly down to its present position from a higher elevation. [5]
But the attitude of the majority of Americans toward more backward peoples is not cynical; hence there is hope that a democratic solution of the Caribbean and Central American problem may be found. [9]
Now a number of the boats slide backward into the stream, leaving wide gaps in the serried rank of steamers. [5]
Those clumsy ironclads of his can't move backward or forward, and the Rebs have been peppering him for two days. [9]
That weltering chaos of distracted men whirled and surged backward like a tidal wave which has struck a continent, and the day was ours! [5]
Still, I would not have thee cold, Nor too backward, nor too bold. [9]
But she was not backward this time. [5]
The sakkia turneth no more; the oxen they are gone; The young go forth in chains, the old waken in the night, They waken and weep, for the wheel turns backward, And the dark days are come again upon us-- Will he return no more? [11]
Ma, whenever you need money I hope you won't be backward about saying so --you can always have it. [5]
She could no longer rest upon her cushions; and while, with drooping head, she gazed backward over the past, the accusing voice in her own breast cried out that she was reaping what she had sowed. [10]
Looking backward, a little before this time, I note first that Ann had not been able to keep her love-matters a secret from her mother. [10]
At that instant Laflamme threw his arms swiftly round the other, clapped a hand on his mouth, and, with a dexterous twist of leg, threw him backward, till it seemed as if the spine of the soldier must break. [11]
She did not know that his look was the wistful look backward, with no look forward; and that alone. [11]
After this, boats kept passing backward and forward for a long time between the Hornet and the shore, which was natural, seeing that a first night in port is a sort of holiday for officers and men. [11]
I will put it over the door, and then--"All at once her hand dropped to her side, as though some terrible thought had come to her, and, sinking to the floor, she rocked her body backward and forward for a time, sobbing. [11]
Yet, looking backward, it is easy to read the reason for our hesitancy in our national character and traditions. [9]
Eventually, if democracy is not to perish from the face of the earth, some other than the crude imperialistic method of dealing with backward peoples, of obtaining for civilization the needed resources of their lands, must be inaugurated--a democratic method. [9]
The new crop is a little backward, but will be coming in shortly. [5]
He saw that in many things the old land was backward, and he thought that precious time was being wasted. [11]
His features had immediately assumed an expression of intense pain, his eyes staring wildly, and, clapping his hands to his face, he had rocked his head backward and forward in speechless agony. [6]
In looking backward I may regard it as a law of my whole development that my conduct was regulated according to the more or less close mental and outward connection in which I stood with her. [10]
The tomatoes which I left slender plants, eaten of bugs and debating whether they would go backward or forward, had become stout and lusty, with thick stems and dark leaves, and some of them had blossomed. [4]
He sprang to his feet, wrenching the horses backward and aside with deftness and presence of mind. [11]
The Abby, by himself, took to walking backward and forward under the trees, buried in gloomy reflection. [11]
It would dim her son's--she knew it now--whether he looked backward to the past or forward to the future. [10]
Ca vous donne," he added, with clasped hands and a step backward, "ca vous donne tout a fait l'air d'une dame de Nattier. [9]
The spear that had struck Barre would have struck Shorland had he not bent backward when he did. [11]
There were two gentlemen there; both riding backward, one at each end of the compartment. [5]
He stepped backward from the table, then staggered, and a faintness passed over him. [11]
Duclosse, pale and frightened, stepped from among the fragments of crockery, and with backward glances towards Pomfrette joined his comrade. [11]
And while they fought backward and forward, the lad's mother, Mrs. Ray, cried out to them to open in tones to rend their hearts. [9]
Read backward, or forward, or perpendicularly, or at any given angle, these four propositions will always be found to agree in statement and proof. [5]
Very probably, the first hint we have of the change is that a friend makes the pleasing remark that we are "playing the trombone," as he calls it; that is, moving a book we are holding backward and forward, to get the right focal distance. [6]
Kottbus was not far away, and knowing that I was backward in the science that Dr. Boltze, the mathematician, taught, she gave him the preference over the heads of the other boarding-schools in the Mark. [10]
He hit the Englishman fair in the breast and knocked him backward into the city. [5]
Again and again Dyck pressed his antagonist backward, seeking to muddle his defence and to clear an opening for his own deadly stroke; but the other man also was a master, and parried successfully. [11]
It was a desperate time, but just when it seemed most desperate the wheel of doom turned backward and we were saved. [11]
She had been compelled to bend her head backward in order to see his face, for his figure, seven feet in height, towered like a statue of Roland above all who surrounded him. [10]
And when Stephen Brice looks backward now, he laughs to think that he did not suspect the Judge of being an ally of the two who are mentioned above. [9]
Revolutions never go backward, and when founded on a great moral sentiment stirring the heart of an indignant people their edicts are irresistible and final. [7]
Instead of looking backward with peevish regret, his purpose was to look with blithe confidence toward the future, and to do his best to render it better and more fruitful than the months of revel which lay behind him. [10]
Even if read backward it will do it. [5]
The passenger rides backward going up, and faces forward going down. [5]
Let us go backward a few hours, and place ourselves in Westminster Abbey, at four o'clock in the morning of this memorable Coronation Day. [5]
He was met at the station by his sister, a large, matronly woman who invariably set the world whizzing backward for Langmaid; so completely did she typify the contentment, the point of view of an age gone by. [9]
Those high-impending forests,--"hangers," as White of Selborne would have called them,--sloping far upward and backward into the distance, had always an air of menace blended with their wild beauty. [6]
If there are any among my readers who loved Aesop's Fables chiefly on account of the Moral appended, they will perhaps be pleased to turn backward and learn what I have to say here. [6]
The leader gasped and staggered backward at a blasphemous affront to an institution he held most sacred. [13]
I looked in and saw some objects: The straight linear bodies were darting backward and forward in every direction. [6]
He ran round and round in a circle, and pawed the earth and clawed the air, and threw double somersaults, sometimes backward and sometimes forward, in the most extraordinary manner. [5]
Or in Europe and America, considering the vast backward step of the money-lust? [5]
With a start and a step backward, and with a peculiar angry dryness in his voice, he said: "Just Trafford! [11]
In reality, however, all these movements forward and backward did not improve or alter the position of the troops. [2]
Then, with many a wary backward glance across the sage, he started to round up the rustler's horse. [13]
The marquise cast a swift glance of understanding at the Emperor, and then, walking backward with a series of low bows, obeyed the sovereign's signal to leave him. [10]
But she drew a step backward. [9]
It is not a long story, and needs but a brief backward look. [11]
The poem was a bit of society verse, with a backward look into simpler and wholesomer experiences. [8]
Suddenly Dolokhov made a backward movement with his spine, and his arm trembled nervously; this was sufficient to cause his whole body to slip as he sat on the sloping ledge. [2]

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