6 sentences with 'backward'

Example sentences and phrases with the word backward and other words derived from it.

« During the three-day reunion, time seemed to turn backward. »
« Despite having lost the opulence and much of the learning of Rome, medieval Europe was not a static and completely backward place. Instead, it slowly but surely built an entirely new form of society in place of what it had been. »
« As noted in the absolutism debate, the Prussian royal line, the Hohenzollerns, oversaw Prussia's transformation from a poor, backward collection of lands in northern Germania into a military great power, essentially putting all state expenditure into the pursuit of military perfection. »
« All other civilisations were, according to this model, considered hopelessly backward or stuck at an earlier stage of cultural or even biological evolution. »
« There was also the fact that the extension of low tariffs from Piedmont to the economically backward regions often completely wiped out the few local industries that existed. »
« Russia went from a backward and politically fractured region to a powerful and increasingly centralised state under its Tsar Peter the Great. »

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