Sentence examples for facing back from inspiring English sources

The phrase "facing back" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to describe someone or something that is oriented towards the rear or opposite direction.
Example: "The chair was positioned facing back towards the wall, making it difficult to see the presentation."
Alternatives: "turned away" or "oriented backward."

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I could see his white head, facing back, in the direction it had come from.

Smiley had coronary surgery a few years ago, and is apparently facing back surgery now.

He's now facing back down the pitch, with Olsson tight behind him and nowhere to go.

The division of the dancers in threes and twos kept being shuffled: three facing forward, two facing back, the rhythm of three against the rhythm of two.

In a second TV commercial, a customer and a True Value associate, facing back to back, speak in low tones, as if they are spies exchanging secrets.

Before last season, when he was facing back surgery, it appeared likely that he would retire, but he returned when his back healed and Bill Parcells expressed an interest.

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The smooth, blue-eyed folk spirituals conjure a different time and place — not necessarily the hardscrabble life and times of Woody Guthrie but rather a less disadvantaged era characterized by the Moosewood Cookbook and Volvos with rear-facing back seats.

She made her "Beats me" face back.

It's the same situation Doug Flutie faced back in '84.

I think it was easier for people to imagine solving a problem they faced back then.

"I saw Morales' face back then in the papers, growing up.

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