6 sentences with 'backs'

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


« At dusk they climbed out of the crevasse and continued the journey on foot with their 15-kilogram backpacks on their backs. »
« The European states of the Americas were thus built on the backs and blood of both native inhabitants and enslaved Africans. »
« They had left the car at the ranger station, from which they were 10 miles of water and two stretches of walking with the canoe on their backs. »
« From Sweden, to England, to Spain, monarchs sought to consolidate royal power at the expense of their nobles and on the backs of their peasants. »
« The truck backs up the ramp; then a green light comes on, and the truck box, the size of half a tennis court, tilts and noisily dumps the ore into the bin. »
« The Epicureans, named after their founder Epicurus, believed that humans should turn their backs on the pointless drama of politics and social competition and retreat into a kind of inner contemplation. »

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