Sentence examples for faced backwards from inspiring English sources

But I still ended up in the only seat that faced backwards.

For six months in 2004 the filmmaker Lauren Greenfield and her team followed the early-morning weigh-ins, where some patients faced backwards so they couldn't see the numbers; the silent stares at meal times; the angry individual and group psychiatry sessions; and the dispassionate staff discussions about the patients.

They will all be facing backwards, of course.

It wrecked the steering system and broke off the tiller arm, leaving the rudder facing backwards.

The closer danger creeps, the more he faces backwards into the past to retrieve some sense of inner tranquillity.

The Folio Society hardbacks as well were now facing backwards, presenting a bank of blank deckle-edged pages.

She went on: Below them are the waters, the waters under which lies the country without hats, where the sun rises facing backwards.

Especially haunting, while the dancers are crossing the stage one way, is a jump in which the body reverses to face backwards while the raised arm softly descends.

The knuckle-dragging swing of the arms, the languid simian gait and the palms facing backwards are all part of showing who's boss.

In a crash, facing backwards is much better as the child is thrown back into the seat rather than forward with the risk of whiplash.

IN the classic Iranian children's tale, the fictional Mullah Nasreddin rode his donkey facing backwards but arrived at his destination all the same.