Sentence examples for backward and try to from inspiring English sources

Both lean backward and try to stop as the big door comes closer and closer.

The cat and the mouse lean backward and try to stop on the slippery wax, which shows their flawless reflections.

When the army or the police arrest a suspected bomber, an announcement might not come for days while the security forces work backward and try to track down the people responsible.

Modern accounting and GRC techniques look backward at transactions and tries to find those that may be fraudulent or at least require a closer look.

The four-star, 45-room Seeko'o Hotel, which opened in December 2007, ditches the backward-looking brouhaha and tries to rocket Bordeaux into the future.

He scrambled backward in the shallow water and tried to stand up to run.

"I was just up against the lip and tried to go backward, and I left it in the bunker, which wasn't necessarily that bad, because I got it all the way to the front".

But the "first real Ukrainian president", as Mr Yushchenko called himself, was too backward-looking.Instead of governing, he tried to boost national consciousness by promoting the Ukrainian language and trying to revise history.

The department then telephones the applicants and goes backward and forward trying to find a suitable date for an interview.

"I was knocked backward and I tried to use my foot to get back up and it felt like there was nothing under my foot, like there was a hole in the floor of the Humvee, and I pulled back my foot and I couldn't see it, the way it was hanging.

When I did manage to pick the hedgehog up, it walked backward to try to escape my hands, eventually falling and landing on its back in the box.