Sentence examples for backward pull from inspiring English sources

But business has also exerted a backward pull.

The backward pull distorted the pupil into a cat's-eye shape.

This disappoints her own mother, a failed revolutionary who thinks women must "push and strain forward" or "be part of the backward pull".

Immigration novels often work like playground swings, pitching characters forward into a new culture even as the old maintains its backward pull.

One might use the backward pull of memory through a sensory image (Proust) or the endless niggling details of a police report (Danilo Kis, "Hourglass"); narrate backward (Charles Baxter, "First Light") or refuse to allow the story to progress in time at all (Alain Robbe-Grillet, "Jealousy").

This is balanced by an upward and backward pull in the muscles supporting the mandible.

Flynn was still going backward, pulling the bed, looking at him.

When your strong foot is at the front lean your weight backward and pull up with your arms slightly and smoothly.

In Storyboard's style, the common motifs of being blown backward and pulling yourself up became aching expressions of emotion.

(If not — if he was knocked backward and pulled under — he learned the skill of patience: "Everything passed").

Burnquist, 33, dropped into the ramp switch — backward — and pulled a backside ollie over the 70-foot gap.