Sentence examples for pushing backward from inspiring English sources

A snake moves by pushing backward against rocks, sticks, or any relatively fixed point such as a lump of earth or a small depression in uneven ground with the rear (ventrolateral) surface of the body's curves.

If you do not do this or tell others about it then maybe your are pulling or pushing backward instead of pushing forward.

Then pushes backward to the original position.

"We have been pushed backward by these people".

A refrigerator door that creaks open because it's been pushed backward.

And as the Qaddafi forces were pushed backward, splinter groups broke off and formed their own groups.

France, despite its even more dramatic upheavals, or perhaps because of them, has evolved to believe that civilization flows through and around and within history rather than being pushed backward or forward by it.

The tip leakage flow became weak due to a strong vortex generated in the recess cavity so that it was pushed backward by the main flow.

The Seminoles were pushed backward on two consecutive plays and committed a chop block before Bowden was forced to send in Janikowski to kick a 32-yard field goal.

This autism, it seemed like the same-sex marriage movement was actually pushed backward for the first time since the Supreme Court overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act back in 2013.

This fall, it seemed like the same-sex marriage movement was actually pushed backward for the first time since the Supreme Court overturned the federal Defense of Marriage Act back in 2013.