Sentence examples for backward around from inspiring English sources

At 10 minutes past the hour, the retrograde function activates, and the minute hand makes a counter-clockwise journey backward around the dial to pick up the minute count at the 20-minute marker.

He was the last man to entertain the baseball crowds by tap dancing on the roof of the Yankees' dugout and, remarkably, he could run backward around the bases faster than most players could run forward.

Early in the fifth of twelve scheduled rounds, Klitschko began to reel and skip backward around the ring, with Joshua following; Joshua finally knocked him down with a left hook and an ensuing barrage, and, as the referee moved in to separate the boxers and begin his count, Joshua raised his hands, either to show that he had stopped punching or to claim victory.

Other nonballet movements — one man landing out of the blue on another man's neck and staying there (oddly comic), or a man running backward around the stage in decelerating and decreasing circles (an absorbing minimalist effect) — become peculiar strokes of poetry.

When he turns around to look at you, walk backward for a few seconds until he turns back around.

Hogue shoved her backward, turned around, and ran into Harmon.

Then she took a few steps backward, turned around, and did.

In one repeated motif she mimes throwing a stone, only to arc her body backward and around violently, as if the forces she is battling have swatted her away like a nettlesome fly.

I smiled mechanically at Mrs. Black and began walking backward, before turning around to follow Nicole.

Yet I remember my father often kept him turned around backward on his ring finger.

Take each end of front body straps and pass them around backward.