"backwards" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The wings rotate limitedly on axles near their front edges, and thus on upstroke and downstroke they propel water backwards.
- These incidents were sometimes caused by dropping the weapon on a hard surface with an impact sufficient to knock open the ejection port cover and propel the bolt backwards (but not enough to catch the sear).
- However, others have countered that boats wouldn't move forward unless they propelled water backwards.
- In particular, there is a major risk of a semi-auto gun being uncontrollably propelled backwards by the recoil and firing rounds at the shooter's back as well as any bystanders.
- To propel the shell backwards.
- The force of the shot propelled Marie-Cecile backwards and she lost her balance.
- The Surplus Special fires its gun backwards to propel itself forwards for extra speed.
- When this feature is activated, the propellers begin producing thrust in the opposite direction, propelling the aircraft backwards to slow it down.
- It was filled with 25 lb of Torpex and the weapon was rocket propelled backwards to the line of flight at a speed that counteracted the aircraft's forward motion.
- The guns were sufficiently powerful, and the punts themselves sufficiently small, that firing the gun often propelled the punt backwards several inches or more.
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