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backwards English
Meaning backwards meaning
What does backwards mean?
Definitions in simple English
backwards
backwards
Synonyms backwards synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as backwards?
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Topics backwards topics
What do people use backwards to talk about?
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What words refer to trying hard to do something for someone?
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Examples backwards examples
How do I use backwards in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Tom bends over backwards to make Mary happy.
Your sweater is on backwards.
You've got your priorities backwards.
Say the alphabet backwards.
You've put your hat on backwards.
Mr. Legros can say the alphabet backwards.
Tom bends over backwards to please Mary.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Forwards always, backwards never.
I can't tell whether it landed upside down, inside out, or backwards.
I can say the alphabet backwards in less than five seconds.
Tom had his T-shirt on backwards.
Your T-shirt's on backwards.
It's backwards compatible.
Tom slowly walked backwards.
Tom fell backwards.
Your sweater's on backwards.
Your skirt's on backwards.
Why is it easier to park the car backwards than forwards?
Tom has his sweater on backwards.
Movie subtitles
The accused is taken backwards into the torture chamber, so as not to bewitch the judge when entering.
Put the hose pipe in, pumped it backwards and sucked him out.
Do you suppose that I'm going to carry trays backwards and forwards all day?
She fell over backwards.
Maybe you have it on backwards.
Can't you stop humming that awful tune? You must know it backwards.
I can even walk backwards.
You behave yourself or you'll ride into Dodge City backwards on a mule.
Ah, you got it on backwards.
Twenty times, backwards and forwards.
Went backwards down the hill, takin' the fence with him, got caught on the rock.
And you, Jeff, you lean backwards.
Only if you wanted to wear your face backwards for a while.
I know it backwards!
Maybe you have it on backwards. Put it on the other way around.
You try writing your name upside down and backwards without stopping.
As you spell it backwards, you stretch and yawn between each letter.
You must know it backwards.
At the first try, the gun shoots backwards.
Behave yourself, or you're gonna ride into Dodge City backwards on a mule.
Now read it backwards.
Anybody that's ever been married knows that line backwards and forwards.
You give him one too many, and he tilts forward at you. And you, Jeff, you lean backwards.
Backwards.
I like to imagine how much more amusing. this scene would be. if the Monegasque soldiers. strictly in rhythm. having marched a few steps forward. suddenly took exactly the same number of steps backwards.
You go backwards, you fall on your back.
They look ahead, not backwards.
It wasn't fastened, and you had it on backwards.
Backwards?
Yes, backwards.
I'm all mixed up Oh, it's backwards for me, come over here.
I keep getting my S's backwards.
News and current affairs
But we can take it a step further back: people's income is lower and their jobs are insecure because they were not spending a short time ago - and so on, backwards in time, in a repeating feedback loop.
To understand the severity of these risks, let's work backwards from what is unlikely to happen.
It is rather like a Woody Allen script, but run backwards.
That failure may one day make China's inevitable postcommunist transition as corrupt and chaotic as that seen in the most violent and backwards of former Soviet states.
Thomas Piketty's Marxian claim that capitalism is failing because domestic inequality is rising has it exactly backwards.
The present crisis exposes this pattern of European behavior as what it has always been - the luxury of looking backwards.
Russia, for its part, also went backwards, to tsarism.
Lafontaine's agenda is a move backwards, as if the Continent's tentative moves on the road to a competitive market economy, beyond the welfare state, have reached a cul de sac for Europe.
Unless the European Union acts quickly, the whole region could slide backwards, with dire social, economic, and security consequences.
A widespread feeling exists that European integration is proceeding sideways, if not backwards.
Regrettably, the financial markets and right-wing economists have gotten the problem exactly backwards: they believe that austerity produces confidence, and that confidence will produce growth.
As questions continue to mount concerning the true rationale behind the Iraq war, we should avoid only looking backwards.
Every few years, the minute hand shifted, either forwards or backwards.
It also explains why journalists in those countries have so often bent over backwards to apologize for individual transgressions, rather than stand in defiance.
Everywhere, the signs are pointing backwards.
Whether the progress in this battle against impunity continues or slides backwards is now in the hands of the United Nations Security Council.
But, sad to say, the only hope that I can see is something vaguely Leninist: in Lenin's terminology, if we made two steps backwards, one step was nevertheless made forward.
PARIS - Whenever people seek a justification for European integration, they are always tempted to look backwards.
But the People's Republic's two most important leaders did agree in one area: both bent over backwards to make territorial concessions to resolve border disputes.
For the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have witnessed history moving backwards; everything they lived through 15 years ago is repeating itself.
Another military putsch would nudge Thailand backwards, from a democratic outlier on the world stage to an authoritarian outcast.