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Example sentences for: backfire

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

In the long term, this pursuit of Clinton will backfire for several reasons.
Taking on corporate welfare might backfire, casting Clinton in the discredited role of Democratic scourge of business.
This can backfire alarmingly, as in Nancy Kress' 1991 novel, Beggars in Spain . In it, genetic engineers adhering to an Ayn Rand-like philosophy called "Yagaism" create a race of people who don't need to sleep.
You might expect that plan to backfire by encouraging the candidates to spend more.
' But Clinton advisers said that they expected Mr. Lott's comments to backfire" ( New York Times ).