Example sentences for: backfired

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

  • Again, the offer benefits Gore because his earlier spending spree has backfired on him.

  • Corollary: The "circuit breakers," which suspended trading, backfired.

  • Furthermore, the GOP's resignation-by-example argument has backfired.

  • Livingston's resignation has also backfired by diverting public attention from perjury back to sex.

  • Ireland's hair-trigger charges of intolerance have backfired, convincing the media that NOW is intolerant.


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