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Example sentences for: backed

How can you use “backed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Spain was backed by Portuguese aristocrats, eager to avoid war.
It's not happenstance that he is backed by such an odd assortment of people, ranging from Republican populist Huffington to earnest liberal Bill Moyers.
They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's futility: Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.
The landings were launched from bases ceded to the Japanese by Marshal Pétain’s French colonial officials in Indochina and backed up by new high-performance fighter planes.
The theory is not backed by hard science, and MI-based curricula often seem like time wasters.