Sentence examples for tilt backward from inspiring English sources

Exterior walls tilt backward or forward; rooms are tucked into what seem like leftover spaces.

It doesn't help that many greens tilt left or right, or that even more greens tilt backward — away from the approach shot.

The play of light and shadow in the finished painting is melodrama, and nature seems to be reeling: trees tilt backward as if a cyclone had slammed through.

The car is stripped of nonessentials, and the rear is converted into a gondola that can tilt backward to aim its blower into the end of a balloon lying flat on the ground.

The weight makes most climbers tilt backward towards the horizontal, Baumgartner notes.

If the vehicle is too fast, it will tilt backward to slow down.

tilted backward toward the parent cliff during movement down a gentle slope.

A few tilted backward or forward, and fell off their pointes.

When Mr. Erickson returned from his errand a few minutes later, he found Nakesha sitting motionless, her head tilted backward, her eyes open but empty.

They made quite a study in contrasts: she looked as if she were crawling on all fours, while he tilted backward in a most unnatural way.

As the back of the key reaches its highest point, this catch (the escapement) tilts backward on its hinge and releases the beak at the back of the hammer shank.