Sentence examples for gets backfired from inspiring English sources

A lot of Ohana's good deeds gets backfired or unappreciated.

Other efforts to get Sunnis to turn against the extremists also have backfired.

Jacques Rudolph had wafted the first ball of the innings from Hogg to backward point, and Anthony McGrath's attempt to get after Lungley backfired when he top-edged a hook and Steven Croft took an acrobatic catch running back from square leg.

It backfired; I got a cult following.

However, wiser heads in the party counsel that the rush to get him home has backfired, helping his enemies.

While being a good friend can backfired and get you "friend zoned", more often it is a way to show you are kind, caring, and committed.

And getting tough can backfire.

Emma, a 16-year-old from Surrey, told me that her friends are way more wary than boys of how getting wasted can backfire on your public image.

This wasn't quite Ed Orgeron and Mississippi going for it on fourth down near midfield in the 2007 Egg Bowl, a move that backfired terribly: Mississippi State got the stop and then scored the game-winning points.

On the other hand, the rescheduling backfired: the Pro Bowl got jammed into the same weekend as the N.H.L. and N.B.A. All-Star Games — though not this year, since the N.B.A. lockout moved the league's All-Star Game to Feb. 26 — casting a spotlight on its staggering irrelevance when compared with those events.

"Probably getting into the Championship has backfired in respect to me being able to be around the team," he told to BBC Radio Solent.