Crossword-Solution: BACKSTROKE 10 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 22

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Swimming specialty 1 answer
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swim on one's back 1 answer
swimming stroke executed on the back 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with BACKSTROKE (5)

How are jack-boots jarr'd, how are stirrups clash'd, While the mare like a meteor past him shot; But I clove his skull with a backstroke clean, For the glory of God and of Gwendoline.
Poems Adam Lindsay Gordon 2008
XLIX The monster so the fierce assault did make Therein her master was well descried, It might be said; she shook a poisonous snake, And now on this, now on the other side, Leapt at the knight; at her Rinaldo strake Ever meanwhile with random blows and wide; With forestroke, backstroke, he assails the foe; He often smites, but never plants a blow.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
With the rapidity of lightning, Guy Heavystone cast the net over the head of the ringleader, ejaculated “Habet!” and with a backstroke of his cavalry sabre severed the member from its trunk, and drawing the net back again, cast the gory head upon the floor, saying quietly,— “One.” Again the net was cast, the steel flashed, the net was withdrawn, and an ominous “Two!” accompanied the head as it rolled on the floor.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales Bret Harte 2004
And who can help loving you, Uncle Sam?” “Well, they say that I charged too much for lumber, a-cuttin' on the cross, and the backstroke work.
Erema R. D. Blackmore 2006
There is a vast deal of character in the way that a man performs that operation of shaving! You should have seen Richard Avenel shave! You could have judged at once how he would shave his neighbours, when you saw the celerity, the completeness with which he shaved himself,--a forestroke and a backstroke, and tondenti barba cadebat.
My Novel, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton 2009

Quotes with BACKSTROKE (3)

Life is a sewer and we are all but swimmers within it. Smart people do the backstroke. (In other words you gotta have a giggle.)
Stephen B. Pearl Tinker's Plague
Mary Webster was on the blower. Her advance agents saw Hank and me swimming in the middle of the river last night with no clothes on. H'rm, said Atticus. He touched his glasses. I hope you weren't doing the backstroke.
Harper Lee
Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.
David Shields
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).