Sentence examples for flew backward from inspiring English sources

When they flew backward, they beat their wings only slightly faster, at 43.8 hertz.

Simpson flew backward about 5 yards, and the theatrics had the desired effect: the defender was penalized for unnecessary roughness.

A glittering stage set had a platinum Rolex at its center, and the Hot Boys -- the label's all-star alliance of Juvenile, B.G., Lil Wayne and Young Turk -- arrived onstage in a helicopter (which cheesily flew backward over the audience).

The architect Frank Lloyd Wright warned of the floo floo bird, "the peculiar and especial bird who always flew backward... because it didn't give a darn where it was going, but just had to see where it had been".

She flew backward under the crushing force of the office door, passed out, and awoke with shards of glass in her head and an expanse of bodies around her — some dead, some alive but dazed, and many more, she soon found, floating "like charcoal" in nearby rivers.

She flew backward under the crushing force of the office door, passed out, and awoke with shards of glass in her head and an expanse of bodies around her some dead, some alive but dazed, and many more, she soon found, floating "like charcoal" in nearby rivers.

Jon Jay made the catch while flying backward into the wall.

The punch sent Pacquiao flying backward, on his backside.

They can even fly backward or upside down for short distances.

"The flies are really cool, being able to fly backward, flying rings around these ants," Dr. Gilbert said with enthusiasm.

The researchers also found that the birds were unable to fly backward at more than 10 miles per hour.