Sentence examples for was backward from inspiring English sources
adjective
Pertaining to the direction towards the back.
- They left without a backward glance.
Enbridge's analysis was backward, however.
"Our process was backward," Mr. Henry said.
Mr. Singer realized everything was backward.
He was backward and he was a genius.
Wuji agreed then that the United States was backward.
As long as they were back ward, the country was backward.
But his view of the world was backward-looking in other respects.
I was really struck, standing in the debate with Cameron, that his opening statement was backward-looking… it sometimes looks as though he doesn't know why he's there".
However, later researchers found that because the data was backward-looking, using search data only very marginally improved performance relative to a very simple model based on past time patterns.
The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Tuesday December 12 2006 Some of the critics may have felt it was backward-looking, or even kitsch.
Their latest, "The Mix-Up" (Capitol), an instrumental hip-hop-funk album, is retro twice over: it was backward-looking kitsch when the group made a similar record a decade ago.
