How do you use Backstroke in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like swim, plus the exact meaning.
Backstroke in a sentence
Backstroke meaning
- A backhanded stroke or blow.
- A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards.
- The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
Synonyms of Backstroke
Using Backstroke
- The main meaning on this page is: A backhanded stroke or blow. | A stroke swum lying on one's back, while rotating both arms through the water as to propel the swimmer backwards. | The pull on the tail of the rope that swings the bell through a full circle (compare handstroke)
- Useful related words include: swimming stroke, swim.
- In the example corpus, backstroke often appears in combinations such as: the backstroke, backstroke and, -yard backstroke.
Context around Backstroke
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 14 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Backstroke
- In this selection, "backstroke" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, 100m, meter, yard, differs, heats and shortly stand out and add context to how "backstroke" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 100 yard backstroke was schultz and 100 yard backstroke with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "backstroke" sits close to words such as abducting, accentuate and accomplishes, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with backstroke
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Emily achieved a gold medal in 200m backstroke. (8 words)
He placed fifth in the backstroke at states. (8 words)
He came home with two bronze medals in the 50m backstroke and freestyle. (13 words)
Hill became the first Team Ireland swimmer to win a long course gold medal in 27 years when she triumphed in the 50m backstroke in Belgrade in a time of 27.73 seconds for the biggest win of her career. (40 words)
Christian Sadie of Team South Africa competes in the men's 100m backstroke S7 heats on day six of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena on in Nanterre, France on Tuesday. (36 words)
Archer Pepito Henry Wee (compound boys-72 arrows), swimmer Stacey Bernice Requiza (girls 13-15 50-meter backstroke), and dancesport athlete Bhenz Rudolf Owen Semilla (standard junior male) clinched the city’s other gold medals. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
Water polo backstroke differs from swimming backstroke; the player sits up a bit in the water, using eggbeater leg like motions with short arm strokes to the side instead of long arm strokes.
Also in action in the morning session, Righardt Muller lines up in the opening round of the men’s 200m freestyle and Milla Drakopolous is in the women’s 100m backstroke heats.
Archer Pepito Henry Wee (compound boys-72 arrows), swimmer Stacey Bernice Requiza (girls 13-15 50-meter backstroke), and dancesport athlete Bhenz Rudolf Owen Semilla (standard junior male) clinched the city’s other gold medals.
Barry also finished second in the 100 yard backstroke with a time of 1:04.46.
Emily achieved a gold medal in 200m backstroke.
Finishing in fourth place in the women’s 100 yard backstroke was Schultz, with a time of 59.19.
He came home with two bronze medals in the 50m backstroke and freestyle.
Sarah Price – a Commonwealth champion in the 200m Backstroke at Manchester 2002 – also shared memories of Helen, in and out of the water.
Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse has won a bronze medal in women's 200-metre backstroke at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Ceccon, a representative of Team Italy, won the 100M backstroke shortly after arriving to Paris and followed it up with a bronze medal on the 4x100M freestyle relay team.
Christian Sadie of Team South Africa competes in the men's 100m backstroke S7 heats on day six of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Paris La Defense Arena on in Nanterre, France on Tuesday.
He placed fifth in the backstroke at states.
Hill became the first Team Ireland swimmer to win a long course gold medal in 27 years when she triumphed in the 50m backstroke in Belgrade in a time of 27.73 seconds for the biggest win of her career.
Ihar Boki proceeded to the 100m Backstroke final with the second best time of 58.97.
Masse is a three-time backstroke world champion who won Olympic silver in this event in 2021.
Remember there are the front crawl or freestyle stroke, breast stroke, backstroke and butterfly stroke of which the latter is my least favourite.
She now owns the 100- and 200-meter backstroke records that once belonged to Smith.
The Pilates instructor welcomed Olympic gold medallist backstroke swimmer, Kathleen Dawson, into the studio for some sessions.
Toronto native Summer McIntosh, 17, holds the Canadian flag after becoming the first Canadian woman to take gold in the race that combines butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle.
At the same Olympics, Meagher’s United States teammate Rick Carey was glum after his victory in the 200-meter backstroke.
Common combinations with backstroke
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the backstroke 19×
- backstroke and 10×
- -yard backstroke 7×
- -meter backstroke 5×
- backstroke at 5×
- yard backstroke 3×
- backstroke with 3×
- in backstroke 3×
- backstroke in 3×
- backstroke heats 2×