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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.