Sentence examples for be backward from inspiring English sources
adjective
Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
- They left without a backward glance.
While traditional society was generally presumed to be backward, Nyerere saw its social and economic possibilities for overcoming backwardness.
And so the timing of the expanded force for Darfur may be backward.
Say you read Keats's sonnet "When I have fears that I may cease to be" backward.
After all, if your mother says it's O.K. to be backward, then what's the point, right?
Thus, Romanians are suggested to be backward while those in the West are civilized.
They also know his next step in Sparano's system is as likely to be backward as forward.
So the revival and conservation of old crops, breeds and production methods need not be backward-looking.
The lens will be backward-compatible with other Panasonic MFT models but you'll need to update the firmware.
He makes an interesting point about the Olympics: it couldn't be backward-looking, couldn't be about what Britain had achieved in the past.
phones will be backward-compatible so they can run on Verizon's older 3G network, those 3G phones won't run on the new, faster L.T.E.
On the other they want them to be "backward-compatible"—able, in other words, to cope with software compiled for previous chips.
