Synonym: back, backward, rearward, rearwards. Similar words: backwards and forwards, backward, backwash, backwater, awkward, awkwardly, awkwardness, towards. Meaning: [b'ækwədz] 
adv. 1. at or to or toward the back or rear 2. in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal.
adv. 1. at or to or toward the back or rear 2. in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal. 
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271. After well over an hour the race was abandoned as the fleet slowly drifted backwards out of the harbour.
272. Peter: Why did you go backwards when I was coming to you?
273. Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal.
274. Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards towards the brain.
275. Her blow connected, and Ma Katz staggered backwards, blade scraping the flower-pattern wallpaper.
276. The captain staggered backwards, tripped over the dropped gun and fell on to the sidewalk.
277. Time is like stepping backwards you said tonight(http://sentencedict.com/backwards.html), the future's always dark.
278. They are established by the extension of any of the budget segments backwards to the right-side vertical axis.
279. As she hurried down a long corridor, her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night.
280. And to cap it all off, when she was tied-up she couldn't run backwards, so she lay down instead!
281. The habit of reading the paper backwards even spread to the quality press.
282. Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry.
283. As Seawitch rolled heavily Polly's foot slipped on the wet deck and she stumbled backwards, pulling Nathan with her.
284. He delivered a great kick backwards at Terry Place's shins, the edge of his boots like iron.
285. As Pegasus fought clear, I smelled smoke and felt a glancing blow which whirled me backwards and away.
286. Piper leaned backwards, staggering,[sentencedict.com] and watched the room revolve until his brain seemed to hum with the motion.
287. All the competitors, it seemed, had backwards baseball caps and were embroiled in drug scandals.
288. Bending your arms, lower your upper body backwards towards the ground and then straighten them without locking the elbows.
289. From where he was lying, he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target.
290. He pulled his toes backwards, hard, to ease the cramp.
291. When hovering, the same input will make the model start to move backwards.
292. The fingers gripping her windpipe slackened and Irina slumped backwards against the desk and slid to the ground.
293. We can drive a car forwards or backwards, but not sideways.
294. We live forwards, a Danish thinker has said, but we understand backwards.
295. Backwards compatible with devices that use Memory Stick PRO Duo ? media .
More similar words: backwards and forwards, backward, backwash, backwater, awkward, awkwardly, awkwardness, towards, inwards, downwards, afterwards, tend towards, backyard, backboard, back-to-back, back to back, backpack, regards, innards, hardship, on the cards, as regards, yardstick, house of cards, deck of cards, back, aback, living standards, graveyard shift, go back.