At or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane.
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Examples for "backward "
Examples for "backward "
1 Of course, we can't travel backward in time: nobody can do that.
2 You can't look backward here; you have to look to the future.
3 Unfortunately, both writers are attempting to move forward while actually facing backward .
4 It's a backward place, and there's no high society to speak of.
5 Forward and backward flight, and speeds up to sixty miles per hour.
1 You begin with the end result and work backwards to the causes.
2 I can't believe we have gone backwards in this way, said Bond.
3 The only forward movement on this case has come from going backwards .
4 Start with the end goal and work your way backwards from there.
5 I decided to work backwards , to search for light among the shadows.
1 The Iowa was three and two-tenths miles directly astern of the Vizcaya.
2 He glanced past him into the glare on the empty sea astern .
3 Some of the rubbish fell in the water just astern of us.
4 A shell burst in the air a hundred feet astern of it.
5 Pass astern of Jobert, and let Montresor and Houston tackle the others.
6 The brig is two miles to three astern , and just stays there.
7 I steer my bark with Hope in the head, leaving Fear astern .
8 Then Shard turned into the forest and the Arabs were dead astern .
9 There is no doubt that it puts water in motion not astern .
10 When he neared the land the tug was still some distance astern .
11 The English fleet, closely watching their movements, brought up two miles astern .
12 Edge her in, Hawkins, until you are dead astern of the brigantine.
13 The firing then ceased, and the submarine was soon left far astern .
14 An astern firing gun would be valuable to B in another sense.
15 I cut away my boat, the breeze was rippling the water astern .
16 We were off at once, and I sat astern near the ancient.
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