Sentence examples for pushing backward against 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.

The Bruins were continually pushed backward against the Sun Devils, being held to minus-one rushing yards.

The participant is instructed to stand in a comfortable stance with his or her eyes open and push backward against the palm of the examiners' hands.

Insects generally employ either a tripod gait in which three legs swing forward and the other three push backward against the ground (stance)—or a tetrapod gait, in which two legs are in swing and the remaining four are in stance.

He pushes backward with his behind.

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.

Don't let yourself get pushed backward.

The fractured piece may be pushed backward or forward.