Sentence examples for backward landing from inspiring English sources
The ball sputters upward, then backward, landing in foul territory and bouncing to the gutter.
Collins caught Thomas by the right arm, sending him flailing and falling backward, landing hard on his lower back.
The leadoff homer by Maybin barely sailed over the wall in center field, and it bounced backward, landing on the outfield grass.
The Japanese baby, Mari, has a particularly antic routine in which she becomes frustrated while trying to fit a peg into a hole, throws her head to the side in operatic despair, and propels herself backward, landing with a thump, like Chaplin taking a pratfall.
Jump again with right leg forward and left leg backward landing with one foot in front and the other behind, as though you took a step forward.
Britain was the bastion of liberty, destined to spread its values through backward lands.
The notion of "sacred trust" was Britain's justification for its 18th-century imperial rule in "backward" lands like North America.
"Agribusiness is the new name" for the alliance between "backward" land magnates and financial capital, says José Batista de Oliveira, a member of the MST's national directorate.
The phenomenal economic boom over the past two decades, and the secularization that came along with it, allowed Ireland to think it was no longer what it once was: a backward land dominated and shaped by the Roman Catholic Church.
If it ticks through all applications – a bypass here, 60 miles of pylons there – with the arrogance of some colonial administrator trying to modernise a backward land, it must go.
Australia is a slow, backward land of dingos and kangaroos at the "bottom of the world" where actors view America "the way the Martians view Earth at the beginning of The War of the Worlds", according to Vanity Fair in a new profile of Margot Robbie that has been mocked and parodied across the country.
