Backed

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"Backed" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Foreign investors backed off because of regional political unrest.

To Bob's disappointment, several of those who had promised to help him afterwards backed out.

Traffic downtown is all backed up.

He backed us up during that incident.

That kid was almost run over when the truck backed up.

At today's meeting almost everybody backed my plan.

My house is backed by woods.

The LDP brought out a bill to raise taxes, but they met with such violent opposition that they backed down.

At the moment she saw a tall man with a gun standing in the doorway, she instinctively backed away.

His car was seriously damaged when he backed into a telephone pole.

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He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.

a high-backed chair

sway-backed

red-backed shrike

asset-backed securities

Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.

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