Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "little back"

  • He bent down and looked so deep into her eyes that she drew a little back.

  • Wickersham tried to detain her, but she backed away, her hands down and held a little back.

  • Wickersham's self-contained face paled suddenly, and he stepped a little back.

  • Move a little back, darling; they can't see us here.

  • Every morning, at the hour Austen was wont to drive Pepper to the Ripton House stables across the square, Hilary had contrived to be standing near his windows--a little back, and out of sight.

  • Riley held a little back of the two, being the coward.

  • A few mourners had stolen into the house and up the threadbare stairs into the miserable little back room, somehow dignified as it had never been before, and laid their gifts upon the coffin.

  • No sooner had their visitor left, than they retired to a little back room at the end of their store, where they had held many a pleasant conversation in company with their friend Sam.

  • And on he had to go, straight through the old shop, into a little back yard, and then into a little old house.

  • We went into a little back-parlour behind the shop, where we found three young women at work on a quantity of black materials, which were heaped upon the table, and little bits and cuttings of which were littered all over the floor.

  • A few partridges now come down over the thin snow towards the stack, at first fast, with a pause between each run, during which they draw themselves up and throw the head and neck a little back.

  • Ever and anon there comes the strained, grating call-note of another peewit, and then this one rears up the body and jerks the head a little back, then jerks it flexibly forward again.

  • I want your eyes about here"--he indicated a picture on the wall, a little back and to the left of where he stood at the easel.

  • But when she saw that he was about to awake, she deftly slipped off her jacket and, placing it under his head, drew a little back.

  • The man at the window drew a little back, with a low exclamation of pleased surprise and wonder.

  • I could feel the warm, sweet air of spring blowing in, I could hear the pleasant, subdued noises from the barnyard, and by leaning just a little back I could see the hens lazily fluffing their feathers in the sunny doorway of the barn.

  • When Nort finally gave the word, the old Captain drew his lame-legged chair squarely under the fan, sat himself down in it, and stretching out luxuriously, leaned his beautiful old head a little back.

  • This bowl of a helmet Fergus sets upon his head, tilted a little back, so that he looks like a dervish.

  • Duc d'Orleans begged the King to step into a little back cabinet, where he would say a word to him alone.

  • Let me say, then, that I had a little back cabinet, leading out of another cabinet, but so arranged that you would not have thought it was there.

  • He made the Pere de la Tour enter at night by a little back door, at which an attendant was in waiting to receive him.

  • Please move a little back, Holland," he said, "I want to get nearer the fire.

  • When they saw Him, and perceived how in silence He regarded them, they drew a little back, as if perplexed.

  • Mr. Davis drew a little back, as if a trifle disconcerted.

  • The man laughed, and, as he did so, it was seen that the Stranger started, and drew a little back.

  • The lady cast down her eyes, and suffered the animal she was riding to fall a little back.

  • This was the room destined for the reception of the single gentleman during the day, and a little back room on the same floor was assigned as his sleeping apartment by night.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little back" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    little alcohol; little amused; little astonished; little attention; little bell; little brother; little cottage; little farther; little friends; little frightened; little game; little gesture; little joke; little lard; little masters; little missy; little picture; little salt and pepper; little scream; little sign; little sleep; little snow; little song; little surprised; little temple; little world