Sentence examples for staggering backward from inspiring English sources
She gave him a push that sent him staggering backward to the floor, then stared down at him with angry, kohl-rimmed eyes.
McGregor was getting hit and getting tired, staggering backward.
"I looked up in the middle of the scene and realized that the cinematographer was kind of reeling and staggering backward.
Everett bumped Kulpa with his chest, then slammed his helmet to the ground and struck the umpire in the face with his face, sending Kulpa staggering backward.
Sadly, the other hotly debated Capa mystery -- whether he staged his famed image "The Falling Soldier," which depicts a Spanish Republican man staggering backward on a battlefield near Córdoba in 1936, supposedly at the very moment he has been hit by enemy fire -- was not solved by this find.
An initial statement released by the RSPCA following the BHA announcement claimed that jockeys had "a licence to beat them [horses] with impunity" and though the phrase was subsequently amended to "use the whip excessively", David Muir, the RSPCA's equine consultant, has also described the move as "absolutely staggering", "a backward step" and "a black day for the racing industry".
"It is absolutely staggering that the BHA has taken such a backward step, less than six months after the whip rules were introduced to react to public concern," he added.
"It's absolutely staggering that the BHA has taken such a clear backward step," Muir said.
Their dishonesty was staggering".
