Sentence examples for have backbone from inspiring English sources
"Some people have backbone.
Some people have backbone by the metric ton".
In the midst of all that moral compromise, Palin appears to have backbone.
A. Of all the traits we've identified as being important, on the one hand we have heart and the other hand we have backbone.
Could it be that the local auditor feared the national office experts would have backbone, and force him to anger a very important client?
"Directors need to have independence, they need to have backbones.
Cambrian animals didn't even have backbones, let alone a leg to stand on.
Well, not all vertebrates have straight backs, but all have backbones, or vertebral columns, that help support their bodies.
While all other vertebrates have backbones "like a column of stacked barrels connected by spongy cartilage," the marlin's backbone looks like one solid structure, he said.
A great number of chemicals in the natural and industrial world have backbones made of carbon-on-carbon bonds.
