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Example sentences for: backwords
How can you use “backwords” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Wood-burning stove and handwritten note are two recent items for the backwords collection.
I lived David Galef's “Backwords and Newances” [XVI,2], but he certainly is not a techie (from technician, usually electronic technician `one familiar with and capable of dealing with technology')
Fountain pen, dirt road, manual transmission, steam engine, hand-woven fabric, conventional weapons, general practitioner, natural childbirth, cloth diaper --these are backwords dating anywhere from the era of the jalopy to the nuclear age.
Backwords differ from back formations : the latter are words (often verbs) formed on existing words (often nouns) by severing an ending.
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.
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