Sentence examples for tilted backward from inspiring English sources

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

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.

To create the effect of a person sitting in a chair, the figure actually has to be tilted backward, reclining slightly, as if in a business-class airplane seat.

A squadron of seagulls excitedly hovered as Shirley pressed a button and the bed tilted backward, sending a putrid tangle of legs and contorted mouths thumping to the ground.

The Giants had fourth-and-17; Collins whizzed a pass to Tim Carter, who leapt, his body tilted backward, and snared the ball, falling to the ground at the 8. Sixteen seconds remained in the half.

It floated on the surface for a few seconds, then tilted backward so that the mouth half opened and grinned at them before the head sank out of sight.

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 near-ecstatic moment of suspension as he tilts backward ("Remember me", 3 40) is pure Isadora Duncan; the precise regal placing of the heel of hand to his head ("But, ah, forget my fate") has a ballerina authority.

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.