Sentence examples for extending backward from inspiring English sources

Part of Dylan's latest, august persona is a strong interest in the genealogy extending backward and forward from him.

The resulting configuration superficially resembled that of birds, whose pubis is a thin process extending backward beneath the larger ischium.

Despite all the marketing and mythologizing about bloodlines extending backward into antiquity, many canine breeds are relatively modern and man-made.

It hung pendulous from the submaxilliary, extending backward over the external jugular vein and carotid artery, forwards to the opposite side of the trachea and downwards to the breast.

HALLOWEEN may not arrive until Oct. 31, but in recent years its tendrils have seemed to be extending backward: masks, costumes and candy corn appear the minute the weather says fall.

Some catfishes (Clarias and Heterobranchus) of Asia and Africa have branched respiratory structures extending above the gill chambers; others (Heteropneustes) have elongated, tubular, lunglike sacs extending backward as far as the caudal fin (tail).

In 1990, Charles Liebman and I would write of Jewish "historical familism," of seeing Jews worldwide as an extended family, one that extends backward and forward in time, and embraces even those with whom one profoundly disagrees.

Sometimes a wing stretches laterally to one side while the opposite leg extends backward.

In different circumstances, the beaches could gradually extend backward as the sea level rose.

The feathers extend backward above each eye to the back of the head.

Here the long, thin ischium extended backward and slightly downward from the hip socket.