Sentence examples for extends backward from inspiring English sources

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.

The Australian frilled lizard (Chlamydosaurus kingii) suddenly raises a wide membrane, or frill, which extends backward from the throat.

Jay lives to dumbfound like any magician, only with a passion that extends backward in time and outward into remote regions of the recherché.

All adults possess a large region of pink flesh on the face that extends backward from the base of the bill to encircle each eye.

When not extended, the stylets either are coiled or looped in a chamber located in the labium or the head or are found in a long sheath that extends backward into the heteropteran's body cavity.

Members are covered by closely fitting cellulose plates and have two flagella: one extends backward from a longitudinal groove in the armour, and the other, in an encircling groove, may help to keep the animal afloat.

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.

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.