Read full poem →Cat-footed thro’ the town and half in dread
To hear my father’s clamor at our backs
With Ho! from some bay-window shake the night ;
Dictionary Entry
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
In a Sentence
“Could you please scratch my back?”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. backsupon backsbacks runningbacks defensive
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Poetry examples for “backs”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Banjo and his boys. The girls, all but one, gave them
their backs and went off shaking themselves disdainfully.
The one who remained was the absinthe lady. Guzzling
Read full poem →We rested by the stream, to mark
The brown backs of the hovering trout.
Frank tickled one, and took it out
Read full poem →safety and fraternity. Whether history records
that they entered in or turned their backs upon
the vision, it is all one with him—he is immortal.
Read full poem →our principles or pawn our immortal souls for
selfish purposes. We do not turn our backs upon
the history of the last three years. We seek no
Read full poem →And choke the counsels and symposiacs
Of dreamers who have pity for the backs
That bear and bleed.
Read full poem →When bare is the moon:
Rhythm of backs, hollow of necks,
And sea-shell loins.
Read full poem →An hundred vanquisht kings under her lay,
With armes bound at their backs in shamefull wize.
Whilst I thus mazed was with great affray,
Read full poem →Leaving the tree unfruited.
The sun that warmed our stooping backs and withered the weed
uprooted—
Read full poem →Rattling away in printless tracks,
Some, housed on beetles' glossy backs,
Go whisking on--and others hie