Sentence examples for stretch backward from inspiring English sources

Dancers, in pairs, clasp hands over crossed arms and stretch backward and whirl.

Normally, the neck can stretch backward 75 degrees, forward 40 degrees and sideways 45 degrees, and it can rotate on its axis about 50 degrees.

Lines of refrigerated glass cases stretch backward and around corners, each one presided over by a middle-aged woman sporting an apron and a frown.

The silhouettes lean forward or stretch backward or tip their heads to one side in cues we recognize instantly as flirtation, openings.

He loosens the zip, feels the whoosh of wind at his chest, stretches backward, knocks the snow off the glass gauge with the tip of his knife.

The white Negroes, whose genealogy stretches backward from Azalea through Elvis and Paul Whiteman, share the luxury of being able to slough off blackness the moment it becomes disadvantageous, cumbersome, or dangerous.

Great creativity tends to have a whiff of prophecy about it, a feeling of having stretched backward to visit us from the realm of previously unimagined beauty in the future.

He stretches backward, flattening out, then arches downward into the next supple recline, ending in a sitting position, his legs hanging down, as a nude-looking woman danced by Patricia Tuthill suddenly appears beneath him.

To join the procession of states stretching backward and forward through time is to dispel the illusion that we stand alone in history, aloof from its wrack and turmoil.

Though architectural historians are flummoxed, amateur archaeologists are delighted, as the tunnel was filled with a century and a half of debris — a perfect slice of archaeological data stretching backward from 2004, when I bought this Brooklyn house, to the 1860s, when it was built.

But they may certainly have good reason to try, and in particular to try to maintain cultural continuity over time, so that they can see themselves as the bearers of an identifiable cultural tradition that stretches backward historically".