Sentence examples for thrown backwards from inspiring English sources

I was thrown backwards and forwards in the waves for quite a while.

"She jumped out of it and it just shattered, it was thrown backwards and broke into four pieces.

Then cut to the bodies, thrown backwards on collapsed knees, blood pooling around their pale corpses.

He went to help another pilot trying to escape the fire when the first bomb exploded; McCain was thrown backwards ten feet (three meters) and suffered minor wounds when struck in the legs and chest by fragments.

One woman, who only wanted to be identified as Loveleen, told VICE News that she was grabbed by an officer in a white bicycle helmet and thrown backwards in the scuffle.

Staff Sergeant Richard Long of the Glider Pilot Regiment remembered that through the clouds of dust, Cain fired round after round from his PIAT until the SPG was disabled, but whilst engaging the second tank a round exploded in the PIAT with a bright flash and Cain was thrown backwards.

To avoid a foul, only throw within the marker, and don't throw backwards.

Back Throw (backwards while opponent is being grabbed): Fox throws the opponent behind him and shoots three lasers at them.

Throwing distance may be impaired if you don't do this, or you might throw backwards by accident.

The injury, which can take hours to be felt and causes neck pain and headaches, happens when the head is suddenly thrown forwards, backwards or sideways.

"At or about six p.m.," recalled Oliver, "when nearly and safely through that terrible day, by the explosion of a shell, a fragment of which cut a piece from my hat, another fragment nearly severing my badge of rank from my left shoulder, I was thrown violently backwards against a stone wall or batch of large rocks, rendering me for a while insensible.