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Example sentences for "backfire"

Lexicographically close words:
backed; backer; backers; backes; backfield; backgammon; background; backgrounds; backhand; backhanded
  1. Well, way uptown on Main Street, a motorcycle did backfire right beside us--and we all jumped and had a good laugh over it.

  2. It was unusual for a motorcycle to backfire that close together, it seemed like.

  3. As I mentioned before, the sound, I thought it was a backfire in the cavalcade from down the hill, down the hill toward the underpass.

  4. It sounded like a motorcycle backfire at first--the first time we heard it--the first shot.

  5. Early in the morning of his seventh day in Brussels, Claude was awakened by the penetrating backfire of a motor car in the street.

  6. A lot of the solo officers said they thought it was the backfire from a motorcycle because you can make those motorcycles pop pretty loud.

  7. I positively thought that the first shot was a backfire of a motorcycle.

  8. Did you observe the window at all until after you heard that first sound which was a backfire or firecracker, at least you thought it was?

  9. You have referred to three explosions that--one you thought was a backfire or a firecracker.

  10. A backfire or an officer giving a salute to the President.

  11. I felt it was, because it was too sharp for a backfire of an automobile.

  12. After--as I said before, on the first shot, it was too sharp to be a backfire of an automobile.

  13. I heard one shot and then a pause and then this repetition--two shots right behind the other, and I thought it was backfire from a car and I said, "Someone shot the President.

  14. A handful of men were still grouped around Curt, working until the last moment to spread the backfire as far as possible.

  15. We can start a backfire and burn off as much ground around here as possible.

  16. The crest of the hill above them was now outlined in a strong, crimson and the shadowy forms of the workers were visible as they hastened from one backfire to another.

  17. There was a sharp report under the bus, like a gunshot or the backfire of the exhaust.

  18. To the best of your ability to recollect and estimate, how much time elapsed from the first noise which you have described as being similar to the backfire of a motor vehicle until you heard the second noise?

  19. Well, when we were going down Elm Street, I heard a noise that I thought was a backfire of one of the motorcycle policemen.

  20. I thought it was the backfire of a motorcycle.

  21. Can you distinguish, what is there that distinguishes a rifleshot from a backfire or a firecracker?

  22. Most of the witnesses have indicated they thought it was a backfire; the first shot was a backfire or a firecracker.

  23. If anything goes wrong, the backfire may get out of control and leap the fire line itself.

  24. With the ebbing of the breeze, the backfire and the fire head were creeping toward each other with uniform speed.

  25. We'll backfire for another three thousand feet on this line.

  26. Just to make sure our backfires don't backfire on us," Dick Fellows said wryly.

  27. I then discovered that the engine would occasionally backfire out into the boat and that gas was escaping past the piston rings into the base of the engine and from there into the boat.

  28. In case of a backfire, the check valve automatically closed and the gases from the backfire were caught in the induction tank, from which they were drawn out on the next stroke of the engine.

  29. But it works right well--that backfire stuff.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backfire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antidote; backfire; backlash; bang; beacon; blast; blaze; blowout; boom; boomerang; bounce; bound; burst; bust; cannon; carom; combustion; comeback; conflagration; counterattack; counterstroke; defense; detonate; detonation; discharge; explode; explosion; fire; flame; flare; flash; flicker; fulminate; ignition; ingle; kick; pyre; rebound; rebuff; recoil; repercussion; report; repulse; resilience; retort; ricochet; shoot; spring