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285 examples of Backward in a sentence

You see, it will swim forward when it's happy; it will swim backward when it's trying to get away from something like, you know, a toxic chemical.
In other words, I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.
And it's collected by my general practitioner as well, so he can see what's my problem in weight, not on the very moment that I need cardiologic support or something like it, but also looking backward.
Its sensor beams look both forward and backward at the same time, allowing it to do new exploration while it's still achieving geometric sensor-lock on what it's gone through already.
A large chunk of our work has been put into transforming this neglected industrial ruin into a viable post-industrial space that looks forward and backward at the same time.
I actually see time moving backward towards me.
Well, one fact that we can take advantage of, I think a fact you'll all agree is true, is that time goes forward, not backward.
"Kill me now, if you wish," he said, "but I will not ruin my daughter's future because of your old and backward ideas."
We need to know them backward and forward, from who and what and where they are to what their impact is on the economy.
So I don't just have the sight of the people in front of me and the sound of my voice and the weight of my shoes against the floor, but they occur to me as part of one single great conscious field that stretches forward and backward.
Two words made a Lebanese young man judge a girl as being backward and ignorant.
In terms of transport infrastructure, what really makes a difference between advanced and backward cities is not highways or subways but quality sidewalks.
Each of these figures can also run backward and forward in the track and hide behind two adjacent tracks.
Now, after 70 nanoseconds, the ball will reach home plate, or at least the cloud of expanding plasma that used to be the ball, and it will engulf the bat and the batter and the plate and the catcher and the umpire and start disintegrating them all as it also starts to carry them backward through the backstop, which also starts to disintegrate.
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
So this is what I've dedicated my life to, to building an organization and a movement of people who believe we need to turn our backs on the failed prohibitions of the past and embrace new drug policies grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, where people who come from across the political spectrum and every other spectrum as well, where people who love our drugs, people who hate drugs, and people who don't give a damn about drugs, but every one of us believes that this War on Drugs, this backward, heartless, disastrous War on Drugs, has got to end.
The respect is stepping forward, not stepping backward, and I really think that by engaging your body in the moment, in the ceremony, in the places, people welcome you and understand your energy.
But in my research, I'm not interested in looking backward.
Look at the jumper's center of mass as his body bends backward.
So the Fosbury Flop may be sports history's only great leap forward, that is also a great leap backward.
It is more urgent than ever to finally abandon this backward legacy and to affirm our common humanity by ending the social inequalities that truly divide us.
They only go backward if they hit hit another robo-ant or a dead end.
But after studying how successful people spend their time and looking at their schedules hour by hour, I think this idea has it completely backward.
They're working backward from the outcomes they want, using the creative problem-solving methods of collaborative design.
So it's time we make a promise of a world in which we've broken the stranglehold that nuclear weapons have on our imaginations; in which we invest in the creative solutions that come from working backward from the future we desperately want, rather than plodding forward from a present that brings all of the mental models and biases of the past with it.
So it smoothly tracks me as I move around the frame, and it's robust to a wide variety of changes in size, pose, forward, backward.
And our results surprised us; they were backward of what we thought.
If it is, then this backward glance of a disobedient woman may not be a cautionary tale after all.
So while we see advanced technology like robotics and artificial intelligence growing exponentially in the developed world, those same people are worried that a technologically backward Africa is falling behind.
Like this, it goes backward.
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