Sentence examples for sloping backward from inspiring English sources
Armed with pointer and blueprints, Holscher delineated course obstacles in a prerace meeting, warning runners of hazards such as stairs sloping backward and drain risers resembling road bumps.
Many consultations between Lustgarten (in his international intriguer's trenchcoat, ill-fitting; head, neck, and shoulders sloping backward in a froggy curve) and his wife, a young woman in an eyelet-lace blouse and black velveteen skirt, a velveteen ribbon tied on her round, healthy neck.
The seated configurations included back inclines (75° and 80°), upright (90°) and reclines (95°, 105° and 115°), absence or presence of armrest (adjusted at 62 68 cm of height), forward and backward sloping of the seat pan, and supported and unsupported back.
Sergei had already started up the slope, walking backward and videotaping as he went.
Prior studies have focused on whether the supply curve for physicians' services is upward sloping, as predicted by standard economic theory, or backward bending, as would be predicted if income effects dominated.
Desirable traits were a flat forehead, often created by tying a wooden board to the infants head to give the backward sloping effect.
The surface of the platform sloped upward to the rear, so that when the gun was fired and the carriage slid backward up the platform, the slope and friction absorbed the recoil.
The study maintained that the horizontal as well as 5° forward slope of the seat might be the preferred choice, since the load distributed at seat was highest at backward sloping seat for all conditions of supported and unsupported back.
