backwards
IPA: bˈækwɝdz
adjective
- Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
adverb
- Synonym of backward; see usage notes there.
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Examples of "backwards" in Sentences
- He can pronounce words, backwards.
- The approach to the issue is backwards.
- A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
- The beats of the melody are shifted backwards once.
- The parameters work the same for backwards compatibility.
- The direction of the magnetic fields in the picture are backwards.
- Yep, my last name backwards is so horrible I won't even tell you what it is.
- The crest of the male was directed forwards, the crest of the female backwards.
- Amabo Kcarab!!! you say his name backwards and it opens a portal which sucks american jobs into oblivion
- Spirits in the Material World - The Police if you read the title backwards it says eciloP ehT - dlroW lairetaM eht ni stiripS
- '' We are definitely going in backwards from the way we wanted to, '' said Romo, who was 23-of-32 for 321 yards with two touchdowns.
- The word backwards is also mirror-imaged, which typepad wouldn't let me do, but it all adds to the allure of the book, as does the lime gree ribbon bookmark, and offers plenty to talk about with children.
- Zemeks -- young, proud, not real-life worldly yet; that's ok, young Grasshopper -- you need to live a few more years on earth before you can engage me with your "real world" observations and advice; your name backwards is Skemez -- "schemes?" how you made it through school and interviews? it figures;
- He is to skip three times while repeating thrice the following sentence, and after repeating three times forwards and backwards: thus (_forwards_) -- 'Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm; they shall be as still as a stone'; thus (_backwards_) -- 'Still as a stone may they be; by the greatness of thine arm may fear and dread fall on them'; he then is to say to his neighbour three times, 'Peace be unto you,' and the neighbour is to respond three times, 'Unto you be peace.'