6 sentences with “backs”

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.