Sentence examples for the backspace from inspiring English sources
noun
The key on a typewriter that moves the head one position backwards.
But swiping left from the backspace key deletes one word.
I move on to the next letter (or, more often, the backspace).
For newspaper reporters, it receives as much abuse as the backspace key.
He almost never uses the backspace, delete, or cut-and-paste keys.
There's evidence of lots of activity on the BACKSPACE key — though, having just sifted through a bunch of writing from those years, I think maybe not quite enough.
And now they're here, on Fat Watch: Tutu Edition, while we gawp at their strained purple capillaries and desperately hammer the backspace key, thinking better of Tweeting lines like Wobblebox and Belly Elliot.
This workshop format has become a regular feature at our conferences ever since, and forms the heart of the Neverending Backspace Writers Conference that's now available online.
In a few days, I'll be in New York City for the 2013 Backspace Writers Conference--not as an attendee, but as the conference's organizer.
One author who attended the 2005 Backspace conference came away disappointed.
My advice to writers is also why the 2013 Backspace Writers Conference will be our last.
When my business partner, Christopher Graham, and I organized the first Backspace Writers Conference in 2005, we scheduled formal pitch sessions for conference registrants.
