Sentence examples for dragged backward from inspiring English sources

I taste once again the rust in my mouth, metallic, bloodlike, as if I've been dragged backward across time to a place, a town, I left for good.

Drugs have dominated the Tour in recent years, but their dismal presence may actually be overshadowed by the bigger picture in these Games — whether China can stage a successful Olympics or be dragged backward by its pollution and suppression.

The clearance of forests in Malaysia, Indonesia and the occupied territory of West Papua, for example, has been accompanied by sermons about the need to drag "backward" peoples and regions into the light of progress.

A breeze is blowing; long white curtains are dragged sluggishly backward and forward on a pale wood floor.

I was so relieved to touch down I forgot to let go of the toggles, which meant air filled the parachute and dragged us backward fast.

Quick left the crease to snag a puck and dragged it backward before trying to bank it off the end boards behind him, but he did not use enough muscle.

Instead of popping eyes and exaggerated gestures, Mr. Galifianakis gives him deft physical comedy -- say, a hapless yet intricate business with his feet when he's being dragged off backward by the police.

Peter dragged a backward Russia into the modern age by exploiting Western technology–shipbuilding in particular and creating a formidable navy, as he reformed the economy and enlarged national boundaries.

The President has dragged America backward into the devolution of our country by his prejudice and this national sanctioned hate.

He dragged her backward and ordered her two male colleagues to drop their weapons and raise their hands, telling them, "I am here to die for Allah.… In any case, there will be deaths". As the woman, a reservist, fought back, Belgacem dragged her to the ground and tried to wrestle her assault rifle from her.

"It is trying to drag America backward.