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Backwards in sentence

342 examples of Backwards in a sentence

All backwards.
It had to be backwards compatible.
And here we asked Motts to calculate backwards from 100.
And then he's going backwards.
Go backwards.
If we run the movie of our universe backwards, we know that there was a Big Bang in our past, and we might even hear the cacophonous sound of it, but was our Big Bang the only Big Bang?
And now, using a joystick, they can send this creature around the lab and control whether it goes left or right, forwards or backwards.
I was struggling, tired, desperately gripping those rims just so I wouldn't tip backwards.
And now we can see inside of the brain at a resolution and ability never before available, and essentially learn how to reconstruct and maybe even reengineer or backwards engineer the brain, so we can better understand pathology, disease and therapy.
But I have news for you: our thinking is backwards.
Our thinking is backwards.
And what a trained interrogator does is they come in and in very subtle ways over the course of several hours, they will ask that person to tell that story backwards, and then they'll watch them squirm, and track which questions produce the highest volume of deceptive tells.
But things aren't so simple for the other strand because it must be copied backwards.
And the problem is it's scientifically broken and backwards for two reasons.
As the juveniles are growing up, their horns actually curve backwards.
But thinking about the computer science of human decisions reveals that in fact, we've got this backwards.
In fact, the hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
It can fly up, down, forwards, backwards, even upside-down.
It can fly in all directions, even backwards.
But now let's turn those compounding losses around backwards, and every unit of flow or friction that we save in the pipe saves 10 units of fuel cost, pollution and what Hunter Lovins calls "global weirding" back at the power plant.
And then the Georgetown Airport Authority was bent over backwards to help us with anything we needed.
I take them backwards here to their independence, when they were up here in the beginning of the 1960s.
This one, a little sketchy going backwards, and watch the back foot.
I want you to snap your fingers exactly 50 times, or count backwards from 100 by seven, like this: 100, 93... Go! (Snapping) Don't give up.
So tackling a tiny challenge without giving up, even one as absurd as snapping your fingers exactly 50 times or counting backwards from 100 by seven is actually a scientifically validated way to boost your willpower.
First, they wriggle about on the floor, usually backwards, but then they drag themselves forwards, and then they pull themselves up to stand, and we all clap.
And we can start a film about that, and we can see a little bit backwards in time.
It's walking backwards.
So we lay epinephrine flat on a page, and then we replace all the spheres with simple letters, and then the bonds that lie in the plane of the page, they just become regular lines, and the bonds that point forwards and backwards, they become little triangles, either solid or dashed to indicate depth.
But if it's a logical world in which investment in fundraising actually raises more funds and makes the pie bigger, then we have it precisely backwards, and we should be investing more money, not less, in fundraising, because fundraising is the one thing that has the potential to multiply the amount of money available for the cause that we care about so deeply.
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