How to pronounce backward
Listen to backward in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“backward” in real sentences
817 clips in the index · 165 American · 161 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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>> backward civilization.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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way but in running you press both forward and backward forward and backward forward and backward
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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so in in so studying I was going backward and backward and backward and somebody realized
British Library · hear it here
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But three steps backward.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of backward. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.