Sentence examples for backing up against from inspiring English sources

In earlier testimony, I likened this process to water backing up against a dam that is finally breached.

"Everybody's mind is on the budget, the deficit, the debt ceiling, which we're backing up against, and the potential cutting of Medicare and Social Security," he said.

People were backing up against the platform wall, creating as much room as possible between themselves and the screaming, though a few of the bolder teen-agers heckled by shouting "Hello, Dad," and "Someone's feeling cranky".

Jos Buttler, himself dismissed in controversial circumstances at Edgbaston last year when he was run out backing up against Sri Lanka, was a horribly meek lbw victim to Glenn Maxwell without scoring and the rest of a handsome tail on paper could offer very little to their captain.

Backing up against a rock ledge, coral reef, or some other outcropping with take away certain angles of attack.

"So I walked over to where they were – they were backed up against the wall.

We moved to the dark coffee station when tables were being set up, until finally we were backed up against the ladies' room.

A string of long beaches stretches to the south; a picturesque lava-rock coast backed up against thick jungle lies to the north.

He backs up against a pool table.

Customers screamed and backed up against the walls.

He gets the ball fifteen feet from the basket, backed up against a defender.