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.
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211. The irregular echo of footsteps passed backwards and forwards along the corridor outside.
212. I swerved to avoid a solitary drunk who dreamily crossed the road backwards.
213. Their friend Otto Korn, the physicist, had shown that particles move backwards in time.
213. Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
214. Where reductivism is forward-looking, retributivism looks backwards in time, to the offence.
215. The Gallery is also bending over backwards to boost attendance, and in doing so is rather alarmingly bowing to populist pressures.
216. The overall objective is to make the ski rock backwards slightly.
217. By definition they do not look backwards at the kinds of demographic transformations with which various societies have already coped.
218. More deflector panels sweep the beam backwards and forwards across the screen to trace out the picture lines.
219. Then we noticed that the Pike head was sort of pulsing backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy.
220. For a start, the clock runs backwards from 45 minutes to zero.
221. Gunfire rattled against his pectoral shields, and he staggered backwards from the blast.
222. The cross is meant to be imagined as oscillating backwards and forwards.
223. Some teachers might even choose to teach the entire history syllabus by working backwards from the present.
224. Madame Arcati was springing on to tables, falling backwards off stools and dancing eccentric tangos.
225. Then blindfold them and invite them to take four steps backwards followed by four forward before trying to blow out the candle.
226. Stepping backwards, Harry trod on the foot of the woman behind him.
227. He stumbled backwards and struck a bed screen that crashed to the floor, bringing him with it.
228. He gave no reply, just stood there, his back to them, his head tilted backwards and upwards.
229. Engage forward and reverse gears and shunt backwards and forwards, listening for unusual transmission noises.
230. It is through being able to see simultaneously both backwards as well as forwards, without the need to glance over his shoulder.
231. In practice, the operator jumps forwards and backwards within the pattern indicated on the chart rechecking some decisions and anticipating others.
232. You can then work backwards to positions that are not relevant.
233. In fact, he instinctively stepped backwards into the plantation as the car door was thrown open.
234. Blood jetted from his nostrils and Jimmy went backwards over a desk, taking a computer console with him.
235. So it was transparent, with these little black circles in it that seemed to jump backwards and forwards at you.
236. In figure A the pelvis is pushed forward so that the man is leaning backwards.
237. Police helicopters buzzed backwards and forwards over the area all day.
238. The kitten suddenly flings out a paw and scoops the object up into the air and backwards over its shoulder.
239. Then she leant backwards so that her back was arched across my chest.
240. Sir John fenced on, parrying sideways, backwards and forwards, playing with his opponents.
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.