1. Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. 

2. He looked backwards to see who was following him.

3. The diver flipped over backwards into the water.

4. I gasped and took an involuntary step backwards.

5. I lost my balance and fell backwards.

6. He took a step backwards.

7. I walked backwards towards the door.

8. He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.

9. He looked backwards over his shoulder.

10. She lost her balance and tumbled backwards.

11. When the lever is operated,(http://) the machine sews backwards.

12. Stepping forward can't finish the distance while going backwards can't get rid of the memory.

13. Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead, that's where your future lies.

14. She lost her footing and fell backwards into the water.

15. Every actor ought to know his lines backwards before he goes on stage,() as nervousness may make him forgetful.

16. He tilted his chair backwards and put his feet up on his desk.

17. He leans over backwards to make up for what he has lost.

18. The recoil of the gun sent him flying backwards.

19. He toppled backwards into the river.

20. Draw the floss backwards and forwards between the teeth.

21. Kip stumbled backwards and forwards before falling down.

22. Take a couple of steps backwards/forwards.

23. It's not easy to run backwards.

24. She must know the play backwards by now.

25. I've bent over backwards to help him.

26. She was rocking backwards and forwards in her seat.

27. The word 'star' is 'rats' backwards.

28. He lost his balance and fell backwards.

29. I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards. 

30. He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.

1. He looked backwards to see who was following him.

2. The diver flipped over backwards into the water.

3. I gasped and took an involuntary step backwards.

4. I lost my balance and fell backwards.

5. He took a step backwards.

6. I walked backwards towards the door.

7. He just released his hold and toppled slowly backwards.

8. He looked backwards over his shoulder.

9. She lost her balance and tumbled backwards.

10. When the lever is operated, the machine sews backwards.

11. He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.

12. She lost her footing and fell backwards into the water.

13. Every actor ought to know his lines backwards before he goes on stage, as nervousness may make him forgetful.

14. He tilted his chair backwards and put his feet up on his desk.

15. He leans over backwards to make up for what he has lost.

16. Jackson is leaning over backwards to persuade his wealthy uncle.

17. Anybody who compiles a dictionary has to know his alphabet backwards.

31. She rocked backwards and forwards on her chair.

32. Your T-shirt is on backwards.

33. The child is backwards in her studies.

34. City officials bent over backwards to help downtown businesses.

35. You've put your hat on backwards.

36. The pendulum swung slowly backwards and forwards.

37. People are bending over backwards to please customers.

38. She stepped backwards and fell over a chair.

39. Does your handwriting slope forwards or backwards?

40. She hit him so hard that he reeled backwards.

41. Keeping your back straight,(http:///backwards.html) swing one leg backwards.

42. Paul paced anxiously backwards and forwards.

43. He gave her a hard push which toppled her backwards into an armchair.

44. He was not able to walk without a cane and could only navigate steps backwards.

45. Then she fell over backwards into the flowerbed - it was absolutely classic!

46. The breakdown in negotiations will be seen as a step backwards.

47. He works backwards, building a house from the top downwards.

48. All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.

49. Insert the fork about 6in. from the root and simultaneously lever it backwards.

50. His handwriting slopes backwards.

51. She practiced her part until she knew it backwards and forwards.

52. The changes that have been introduced are being seen as a step backwards.

53. As he stepped backwards she fell onto her knees, then onto her face.

54. 'Ambulance' is written backwards so you can read it in the mirror.

55. Jackson is leaning over backwards to persuade his wealthy uncle.

56. The new measures are seen by some as a major step backwards.

57. Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards.

58. Take two paces forwards/backwards.

59. The hotel manager fell over backwards to give the movie star everything she wanted.

60. To go backwards, you must put the car in/into reverse .

61. In the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool.

62. You've read that book so many times you must know it backwards by now!

63. We bent over backwards to get it finished on time.

64. The third wave was so strong it knocked me backwards.

65. They leaned over backwards to persuade him out of his plan.

66. I punched him on the chin, sending him reeling backwards.

67. Without so much as a backwards glance, he steered her towards the car.

68. Greater government intervention in businesses would represent a step backwards.

69. She pushed me and I fell backwards into the chair.

70. The movement of the ship caused the mast to sway from side to side/backwards and forwards.

71. Although we bent over backwards to please her, our new manager was still very critical of our work.

72. He rocked the cradle with a gentle backwards and forwards motion.

73. I've been bending over backwards trying to help you and this is all the thanks I get!

74. We bend over backwards to be fair to all the children.

75. Toby took a step backwards and knocked the video camera for six.

76. Anybody who compiles a dictionary has to know his alphabet backwards.

77. The car hit the child and she pitched over backwards.

78. Many teachers see an emphasis on written tests as a step backwards .

79. The writing sloped backwards.

80. She bent over backwards to make him feel at home.

81. Instead of making progress, my work actually seems to be going backwards.

82. In the movie they take a journey backwards through time.

83. He took a step backwards to allow her to pass.

84. I felt that going to live with my parents would be a step backwards.

85. As the Toyota moves forward they fall backwards.

86. Can you say the alphabet backwards?

87. There were girls who couldn't walk backwards.

88. He actually found it easier to walk backwards.

89. I scuttled backwards and hid behind the curtains.

90. Are you leaning backwards or forwards?

91. We can then move backwards or forwards in time.

92. She was dragged backwards and sideways through hedges.

93. A hedgehog's spines point backwards.

94. Their bodies collided and, momentarily winded,(http:///backwards.html) she rocked backwards.

95. Evolution had reached its peak and was going backwards.

96. Some might argue that it was running backwards.

97. Why am I walking backwards into the house?

98. Both victims then walk backwards into view.

99. He jerked his head backwards and forwards.

100. Startled, Bunny stepped backwards, dragging Meredith with him.

101. Blake recognized the Lord's Prayer spoken backwards.

102. The figure stepped backwards into the darkness.

103. A miracle had happened, and time had gone backwards.

104. Sarah fell backwards in the snow.

105. He can fly a plane backwards.

106. Need to recover from falling backwards. 3.

107. "Tang" is "Gnat" spelt backwards.

108. She gently rocked the baby backwards and forwards.

109. He started shaking it backwards and forwards.

110. To wait for her would be like walking backwards.

111. We step backwards towards the car.

112. They tumbled backwards together in a happy heap.

113. More importantly, there is always a withdrawal backwards or turn aside in moments of fear.

114. The forward and backwards pruning points define the limits of left and right context for a system.

115. A flailing chimera of camera crews, photographers and reporters staggers backwards down some city high street.

116. As Martinez slid backwards on the tin we all let out our own cries of terror.

117. The locus of failure thereafter moves backwards into the cylinder.

118. Flabagon and Frito fell backwards into a heap, and the cauldron catapulted forward right towards the Goblin King.

119. Cycle backwards 30 times, then relax by cuddling your knees.

120. The lid fell backwards as he reached inside and grabbed a book.

121. His right hand took hold of the guard's tie and collar and he threw him backwards through the doorway.

122. She made them walk backwards and forwards, and then trot.

123. Then he walked backwards, scraping the gravel with the side of his boot.

123. is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.

124. And the Euro Citizens Actions Service said that the proposed code could even turn out to be a step backwards.

125. When excited or scared, a white streak appears on the sides, extending backwards from the pectoral fins.

126. Outside the trees are bending over backwards to please the wind: the shining sword grass flattens on its belly.

127. We can't have a conversation in the hallway, I walk him in backwards.

128. Lie flat on your back and cycle backwards with the legs 30 times.

129. He paused this way for several seconds; then slowly his whole body inched backwards along the carpet.

130. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley 

131. He looked backwards expecting to see the rear gunner running up the fuselage to report that his gun had jammed.

132. The plate can be moved from side to side and backwards for tight corners.

133. Instead, work backwards from the end of the field, using a minus sign.

134. In a backwards kind of way, it became the decisive issue in the race.

135. Anne stepped backwards, the train rocking under her feet, making her unsteady.

136. He swerved off the track and into the gravel trap backwards, praying he wouldn't clout the wall.

137. She saw me looking at her and beckoned me, crooking her finger and inclining her head backwards, indicating the verandah.

138. So was Mary - still whizzing helplessly backwards, at a rate of knots.

139. Backwards Pretend you are a beginner who has inadvertently forgotten which end of the board is forwards and set sail going backwards.

140. She crossed backwards, blindfolded, wearing peach baskets on her feet.

141. He leant back and pushed himself away from the table, sliding backwards on the castors of his typist-style chair.

142. I felt when I came here that I was going backwards.

143. He fell backwards, already rolling as he struck the trampoline between the hulls.

144. The guard rail twisted beneath her hands, and they fell backwards into empty space.

145. The limp body collapsed backwards, the base of Zhukov's skull striking the edge of the sink with a vicious crack.

146. The presence of a particular motive can only be inferred by working backwards from the behaviour itself.

147. The wooden end caught Nogai in the face, and he pitched over backwards.

148. Lying as shown, flex the foot and swing the top leg forwards and backwards 5 times.

149. Both men went hurtling backwards, Scott slamming the newcomer's head against the bathroom cabinet.

150. Slowly straighten the arm by lifting the dumbbell backwards, keeping the upper arm still.

151. Father Luke pedalled backwards in the direction of Whitechapel's parish church and fell over the barrow.

152. He was supposed to be the leader in this assignment, but how could a man lead going backwards?

153. She brought her nose up to my hand, then leapt backwards,(http:///backwards.html) opened her mouth and tried to vomit.

154. He dipped her, catching her by surprise, letting her drop backwards.

155. She jumped backwards and forwards in her narrative, creating considerable confusion in Dougal's mind.

156. But to no avail; his ears would only come forward momentarily, and would then return to the backwards position again.

157. It didn't exactly touch my hand, but sort of glided over it, wrinkling backwards and forwards.

158. The old man wobbled and stumbled backwards, wagging his head as if he were trying to shake something out of it.

159. So I push him backwards into the mountain of stinking rubbish, and he sinks down on it.

160. As before, the essential trick is working backwards and writing forwards.

161. The point of an ending is for the conclusion to look backwards, not to carry the argument backwards.

162. With a loud protest, Gao Ma took three or four rocky steps backwards, trying to keep his balance.

163. He made his way to bed, going backwards up the stairs, making use of his arms and one good leg.

164. A cook from the kitchens took one in the eye and stumbled backwards with his hands pressed to his temples.

165. They saw Jekub roll backwards, change gear with a roar, and attack the truck again.

166. She tried to blink the red mist from her eyes, failed, and toppled backwards out of the image field.

167. He may practise selective pelvic movements, in which he isolates the actions of tilting the pelvis backwards, towards and sideways.

168. Stuart was leaning over backwards to see Oliver's point of view.

169. The same device, run backwards, reacts hydrogen and oxygen together to make water and generate electrical power.

170. Recession, therefore, has the unfortunate and cumulative effect of working backwards.

171. Duvall lashed backwards, but Jimmy had leapt to his feet, colliding with one of the hessian screens.

172. To solve this problem, the synapses are run backwards so you can tell how strongly that particular synapse is connected.

173. Dinosaur shoulder blades had concave sockets facing downwards and backwards.

174. Therefore in daily training it is customary for each exercise to be performed to the left and right, forwards and backwards.

175. With a gasp Chantal staggered backwards, reaching for the chair back to steady herself.

176. Polly caught her breath, instinctively jerking backwards away from him.

177. By undulating this, it drives itself forwards - or, with equal ease, backwards.

178. They also needed to stop rationalizing the problem to themselves and bending over backwards to be fair.

179. He had tried starting in the middle and working backwards.

180. Pike's head quite often pulses backwards and forwards like a mechanical toy.

181. Upon examining the wreck the engine had shot backwards into the cockpit.

182. If you simply leave the positive pitch on, the model will fall over backwards during the climb.

183. Fishing gear was thrown off the deck and two of the crew were pitched violently backwards into the hold.

184. Lying as shown,() flex the foot and swing the leg forwards and backwards 5 times.

185. There is a massive sub-culture there, looking backwards and it's getting more insidious all the time.

186. The authors, however, bend over backwards to avoid consideration of that particular class scenario.

187. Yukio's face erupting before her, stumbling backwards, a pressure on her elbow.

188. In panic she stumbled backwards, twisted round and tried to run into the living room.

189. Now, in the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool.

190. An open-band smash that sent her walking backwards to the stove.

191. The pain was searing, so that I fell backwards, and though I struggled, I could not stand up again.

192. If she said yes, then it would be like taking a giant step backwards.

193. And, once again. you will see that you have had to work backwards.

194. To get a good purchase, I knelt on the melamine top, moving backwards as I was cutting.

195. Yet letting it become law would represent a historic step backwards in a generations-long process of protecting religious minorities.

196. Secondly, word hypotheses might overlap and leapfrog each other's backwards pruning decision points.

197. Keith throws his right shoulder backwards and forwards, hoping the pads will somehow slide into place.

198. He was torn backwards, his hands flailing, and he got a grip on the doorjamb.

199. He pushed her backwards and covered her body with his own, as he gradually undid the buttons of her dress.

200. Cora-Beth's foot had slipped between two of the bales and she had tumbled backwards, dragging Harry down on top of her.

201. The grass blades tore, but their initial resistance sent him stumbling backwards.

202. At any time, we are either learning and developing or moving backwards.

203. Zulei hopped backwards, trying to regain her balance, her mouth a rictus of hate.

204. A nose wrinkle, with nostrils flaring backwards: betrays annoyance or disgust.

205. The right leg is raised to about knee height and is then thrust sharply backwards at the opponent.

206. Charlie took a pace backwards and stared up at the name above the shop.

207. They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner's surgery.

208. As passer-by Jane King dashed to help, the rogue car boomeranged backwards - and knocked her down.

209. Keeping the top leg straight, flex the foot and swing the leg forwards and backwards 5 times.

210. It just seems to me that the film is running backwards.

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.

241. Suddenly Dad uttered a sharp cry and staggered backwards, slumping against the wall.

242. The more his head jolted backwards and forwards, the further down his scalp it crept.

243. You can then treat the timber by spraying or brushing on two generous coats(/backwards.html), working backwards towards the loft hatch.

244. The sudden breeze introduced through the open door disturbed the orbit of the drone and sent the Doctor drifting slowly backwards.

245. Both were thrown out of their seats, which had been fitted facing forwards instead of backwards.

246. Marcus was doubled over and I saw the woman tumbling backwards.

247. Looking at snakes, we seem to be looking backwards in time and deep into our own primal selves.

248. He dragged her backwards and off-balance, and then kept her moving so that she couldn't recover.

249. The dead man fell backwards, his head cracking against the lap of a stone buddha.

250. Instead of jerking on the lead, he gave a mighty push to the bear's head and the man-animal rolled over backwards.

251. Reading forwards, backwards, up, down and diagonally, find the listed words hidden in the grid.

252. To step backwards into the limbo of the last five years.

253. The recoil was unexpected and he staggered backwards as Cardiff reached him, not knowing whether he had hit it or not.

254. The fist's owner became visible, staggering backwards, clutching the wounded article and uttering cuss words.

255. In one of those swings of mood she experienced, swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum, Blanche was frothy again.

256. The second assumption is that the stream can not move backwards on itself, that is, reverse its direction or join itself.

257. Belinda stopped in front of them, still drinking her orange juice and rocking backwards and forwards on her heels.

258. He started to walk backwards as together they advanced until he fell over a precipice, the hound at his throat.

259. He totters backwards, and staggers through the dark opening into the patch of yard below the railway viaduct.

260. Unless a company is progressing the whole time, it is, in fact, moving backwards.

261. Oh, the disgusted look on women's faces as they step backwards through a doorway, out of the rain.

262. You should bend over backwards to avoid bitter personal rows and the holding of grudges.

263. Backwards Pruning One way to define a sub-tree is to reduce the depth to a partial solution.

264. The reason seems to be that the gospel story was formed backwards.

265. One of the oldest tricks of witchcraft was saying the Lord's Prayer backwards.

266. Poor Mr Macgregor turned up after having lain with a woman but almost immediately fell backwards downstairs.

267. In this brief look backwards, history has an easy task.

268. She stumbled backwards and I darted out of the way as she fell over.

269. The assistant cooks heaved on the rope and the cook pot lurched slowly backwards.

270. Fergus woke in utter darkness, wondering where he was; he felt as though he was falling backwards for ever into darkness.

271. After well over an hour the race was abandoned as the fleet slowly drifted backwards out of the harbour.

272. Peter: Why did you go backwards when I was coming to you?

273. Much of the time she could only be ridden towards her dinner bucket; any other direction except backwards produced complete refusal.

274. Any engineer would naturally assume that the photocells would point towards the light, with their wires leading backwards towards the brain.

275. Her blow connected, and Ma Katz staggered backwards, blade scraping the flower-pattern wallpaper.

276. The captain staggered backwards, tripped over the dropped gun and fell on to the sidewalk.

277. Time is like stepping backwards you said tonight(http:///backwards.html), the future's always dark.

278. They are established by the extension of any of the budget segments backwards to the right-side vertical axis.

279. As she hurried down a long corridor, her mind groped backwards over the events of the previous night.

280. And to cap it all off, when she was tied-up she couldn't run backwards, so she lay down instead!

281. The habit of reading the paper backwards even spread to the quality press.

282. Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry.

283. As Seawitch rolled heavily Polly's foot slipped on the wet deck and she stumbled backwards, pulling Nathan with her.

284. He delivered a great kick backwards at Terry Place's shins, the edge of his boots like iron.

285. As Pegasus fought clear, I smelled smoke and felt a glancing blow which whirled me backwards and away.

286. Piper leaned backwards, staggering, and watched the room revolve until his brain seemed to hum with the motion.

287. All the competitors, it seemed, had backwards baseball caps and were embroiled in drug scandals.

288. Bending your arms, lower your upper body backwards towards the ground and then straighten them without locking the elbows.

289. From where he was lying, he could neither go forwards nor backwards without exposing himself as a target.

290. He pulled his toes backwards, hard, to ease the cramp.

291. When hovering, the same input will make the model start to move backwards.

292. The fingers gripping her windpipe slackened and Irina slumped backwards against the desk and slid to the ground.

293. We can drive a car forwards or backwards, but not sideways.

294. We live forwards, a Danish thinker has said, but we understand backwards.

295. Backwards compatible with devices that use Memory Stick PRO Duo ? media .