"backwards" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Ever as they sang, step by step they drew backwards, and with them went the leaders of each company, their eyes fixed upon the statues of their gods.
- Alex who was extremely relaxed about her body had her knees up, arms around them, drawing backwards.
- The werewolf, momentarily offbalance, draws backwards, uttering a questioning grunt that, like his hands, is nearly human.
- She struggled to draw backwards.
- This is because the name refers to the action of the shovel, not its location on the vehicle: a backhoe digs by drawing earth backwards, rather than lifting it with a forward motion like a bulldozer or a man shoveling.
- Suddenly the Mission seemed to draw backwards, sideways, forward, simply away, to suck itself into a vacuum beyond the reach of the maelstrom which roared without.
- By reversing the camera scanning it appeared that he had the special talent of writing and drawing the symbols backwards.
- She started to draw warily backwards a step at a time, hand out to the wall beside her, trying to get out of the loop it had half drawn around her, before it had a chance to close it entirely.
- My stomach drew backwards inside me and I sat up fast, my mouth filling with saliva.
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