Sentence examples for facing backward from inspiring English sources

The phrase "facing backward" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a person or object that is oriented with the back in the direction of the speaker or writer. Example: The child was facing backward on the ride, looking at the sights he had already seen.

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He was born with his right foot facing backward.

I dislike most historical novels: science fiction facing backward.

Karl Kraus famously called the historian a prophet facing backward.

I sat facing backward and my daughter sat facing me.

What planet are we from, what seats were we in (and were they perhaps facing backward)?

When we found him in the river, his head was twisted around, facing backward.

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We'll explain why age matters in a moment, but first know that your child seat must be in the second row of seats and it must face backward (more on why the seat must be backwards in No. 2, below).

The seats all faced backward.

Barak faces backward".

It rears up and twists to face backward.

Half of the British Airways seats will face backward.

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