"backwards" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- During these bewildering intervals the ship usually sailed backwards.
- And Carol sailed backwards into the metal room, slammed up against the wall, and stayed pinned there like an insect.
- You need to be able to hold the board in one position without it drifting downwind and also to sail backwards which is invaluable in tight situations.
- She spread her arms and sailed backwards through the buffeting air.
- What do you do, sail backwards in time and destroy the seeds of dire events before they can grow?
- To prevent one of her forward bulkheads from collapsing, she sailed backwards for over sixty miles at a speed of 3.5 knots, eventually arriving in Oran, where temporary repairs were made.
- Selena cast Becca a mournful look, then sailed backwards, out the window, riding a beam of moonlight to her pale home in the sky.
- Simply push the tiller away from you, push the boom out and the boat will sail backwards and then pull the tiller, pull the mainsheet and sail off again.
- Peering overside, I was left with the impression we were sailing backwards.
- I sailed backwards to escape this current.
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