English example sentences with "backwards"

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In tennis and ping-pong backhand the hand is turned backwards in making the stroke.
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You've got your priorities backwards.
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Rev. King fell backwards, shot in the neck.
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Say the alphabet backwards.
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You've put your hat on backwards.
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The students laughed under their breath when they saw that the teacher had put on his sweater backwards.
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Mr. Legros can say the alphabet backwards.
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Tom bends over backwards to please Mary.
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Tom bends over backwards to make Mary happy.
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It's backwards compatible.
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Curupira is a character from Brazilian folklore. He's described as a man whose feet are turned backwards and who protects animals and forests.
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I just invented a new word-processor enabling to pronounce them backwards.
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I've just invented a new word processor allowing to pronounce words backwards.
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Tom slowly walked backwards.
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Don't you think you have that backwards?
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Good conductors of heat are usually good conductors of electricity, but that puts the causal relation backwards. Conduction-band electrons can't help but transport kinetic energy, which--randomized--is heat. Putting heat before electricity is reasonable only because of the rarity of materials like diamond that conduct heat via the quasi-particles called phonons, which are communicable crystal-lattice vibrations.
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Tom fell backwards.
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Tom stepped backwards.
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It's not backwards.
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Tom stumbled backwards.
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Tom is walking backwards.
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I can't tell whether it landed upside down, inside out, or backwards.
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I can say the alphabet backwards in less than five seconds.
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Tom had his T-shirt on backwards.
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Your T-shirt's on backwards.
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Your sweater's on backwards.
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Your skirt's on backwards.
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Your hat's on backwards.
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You're doing it ass backwards.
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When a transformation has happened, it's not always reversible. However, sometimes a little change makes the transformation backwards possible. Thus, since a change is in this case a transformation as well, there might be needed a transformation to make it possible for the transformation that is the reverse of another transformation to happen.
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Maybe we're doing this all backwards.
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Why is it easier to park the car backwards than forwards?
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Kierkegaard
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Capitalism can’t run backwards.
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The actress fell backwards from the stage.
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You've got it backwards.
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Tom took a step backwards.
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At a time when we as a nation should be moving forward in our efforts to help those who are long-term unemployed find new jobs, we should never have taken a step backwards by abruptly cutting off their unemployment insurance.
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The truth is I bent over backwards to accommodate Tom.
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You have things backwards.
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Tom has his sweater on backwards.
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Your sweater is on backwards.
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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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Please say the alphabet backwards.
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Please recite the alphabet backwards.
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I took a step backwards.
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You have it backwards.
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"I can count from 1 to 100 in French now." "Wow, that's great. How about counting backwards from 100 to 1?" "No, that's still impossible for me."
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The nurse told Tom to count backwards from ten as she administered the anaesthetic.
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His handwriting slants forwards, whereas hers slants backwards.
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He's not backwards about coming forward.
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You have it all backwards.
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Tom walked backwards, retracing his steps.
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Many people think that I am bent over backwards to make her life a burden.
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"It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked.
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Tom put his shirt on backwards.
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I think you've got it backwards.
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Tom has it completely backwards.
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We were doing it backwards.
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Tom pushed Mary backwards.
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Alyssa can pronounce any word backwards.
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I fell backwards.
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I stepped backwards.
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I fell over backwards.
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The only way to lift them out of poverty is by forcibly reeducating them and destroying their backwards language and culture.
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Forwards always, backwards never.
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Are you sure you're not reading it backwards?
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Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backwards, or analytically.
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This is ass backwards!
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I've been bending over backwards.
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I put my Einstein novelty underwear on backwards twice today.
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Play it backwards!
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Play it backwards.
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Muhammad Ali ran four to eight miles a day backwards.
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Tom accidentally wore his underwear backwards on his first day of work.
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Is this console backwards compatible?
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You have your hat on backwards.
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You have it all backwards!
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I stumbled backwards.
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Tom put his T-shirt on backwards.
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Sami was driving backwards.
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Sami was driving backwards down the street.
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Sami is driving backwards.
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Sami was driving backwards, following Layla's car.
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It isn't backwards.
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It seems like it's backwards.
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Tom bent over backwards to please Mary.
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She bent over backwards to please him.
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Tom can read text that is upside down and backwards.
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Tom slapped his forehead so hard that he was knocked backwards.
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Mary put her shirt on backwards.
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He put his shirt on backwards.
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She put her shirt on backwards.
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He wrung his hands in an agony of apprehension, and swayed backwards and forwards in his chair.
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They are going forwards and I am always going backwards.
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You put your hat on backwards.
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You've got your hat on backwards.
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Those who don’t read will, when they are 70, have led only one life: their own! Those who read will have lived 5,000 years: they were there when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia and when Leopardi admired the infinite…because reading is immortality backwards.
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I think that you've got it backwards.
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I've bent over backwards trying to find him.
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I bent over backwards trying not to offend Tom.
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