Example sentences for: backwords

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

  • 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.

  • The frame of mind for hunting backwords need not be disgruntlement.

  • 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.

  • Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.

  • 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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