Example sentences for: backwords

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

  • Perhaps the best example of this paradigm is the touch-tone phone, which has so edged out the older models that two backwords were formed for the old type: rotary phone and dial phone . On the other hand, cellular phones are still new enough to have their own novelty label.

  • In the gustatory realm, backwords are common: Fresh-squeezed orange juice and hand-dipped ice cream simply make the point that most juice and ice cream no longer come that way.

  • They aren't quite neologisms to account for new technology, like cryogenics or LED . Rather, they come from new technology looking back on old technology--and I've decided to call them backwords.

  • Finally, there are the objects that, while still possessing one basic nomenclature, show marked potential for confusion and hence for backwords.

  • The one risk in collecting backwords is that it does tend to make one feel like an antiquity, possibly deserving of a backword oneself.


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