Example sentences for: backfired

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

  • Sources say that Maître-Créche's unusually stiff sentence resulted from a legal ploy that backfired.

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

  • The move backfired, unintentionally reminding viewers that the big difference between ADM and ABC is that ADM is just a couple of letters farther down the alphabet.

  • A last ditch defense effort to portray MaîtreCrèche as a peasant ignorant of France's tough laws on the use of such expressions backfired when the prosecution unveiled a book found in the defendant's office entitled 108 Franglaish Expressions That Can Get You Put in Jail If You Use Them In This Country.

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