"backward" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She reached backward with her shackled hands and gripped the handle of the knife.
- He reached backward and pulled a thin oversized volume from the bottom shelf.
- He tried to reach backward for the butt of his own gun.
- They stared at each other over his hand for an impossible instant, then she reached backward and did something to the door so that it opened.
- As he charts the family's progress in America he also reaches backward, uncovering scraps of his parents' lives before and during the war.
- This man paused at the edge of the stage and reached backward, as if through the tent someone were jerking viciously.
- "It is," Jane says, reaching backward with one hand.
- Now, Markham mused, at its center, a few men remained, trying to reach backward, swimmers against the stream.
- Unmann pushed her under again, and she reached backward, scratching.
- He reached backward with his left hand and got hold of my hair.
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