deshanksuman/cornercases_fews_wsd huggingface dataset:
Sentence:  Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path [...]. It twisted and turned,...and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, [WSD]back[/WSD] of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Away from the front or from an edge.
Sentence:  Plenty of past seasons' events could look ill-conceived in the critical eye of Monday-morning [WSD]quarterbacking[/WSD], but previously, the show had earned the benefit of the doubt that missteps on the part of supposedly intelligent characters were a plausible lack of in-world foresight. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The action of making criticisms after the event
Sentence:  All of this heightened hyper-reaction to criticism plays out against a [WSD]backdrop[/WSD] of dangerous moves by Israel and its supporters in the US to not only defame and politically punish critics and in some instances to go further by making criticism illegal. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The setting or background of an acted performance.
Sentence:  But the gangplank was no longer in place. It had folded itself in half and clamped into storage position, becoming part of the starboard rail. Big Tom peered over the rail and saw nothing but sea. All around. Starboard, [WSD]backboard[/WSD], forward, aft. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The port or larboard side of a ship
Sentence:  The color work on the postage stamps will not be new to the bureau. In addition to the work which it has done on proprietary stamps, it has mixed and used every shade of color in its other work. Brown was used on the “[WSD]brownbacks[/WSD],” green on the "greenbacks;" different blues on customs stamps and on the backs of bonds. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
Sentence:  ...as delivered by a tanner the average weight of a [WSD]back[/WSD] and two strips would be about 42 poundsnb.... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Sentence:  I've got a [WSD]backfriend[/WSD] to meet.'” “A [WSD]'backfriend[/WSD]'?” “Yes. Evidently he had a late-night appointment with someone at Wabash. That was the way he liked to do it.” 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A friend at one's back; a backer; one who does his best for another; a supporter.
Sentence:  What must be recognized is the nature of the source material in which one sees a theological/ideological [WSD]backreading[/WSD] of history. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To interpret what one has read previously in the light of later experience or knowledge
Sentence:  So [WSD]holla back[/WSD] at me beautiful sista girl Let this chocolate lover into your chocolate world 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To make or respond to romantic or sexual overtures.
Sentence:  ‘No, no, no. You [WSD]stay back[/WSD] there. I don't want you anywhere near me.' 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger.
Sentence:  Scott accosted Hanger on the way to school and asked him if he was coming out for basketball. Hanger replied that he was tired of being called a "[WSD]crossback[/WSD]" by a few Protestant hecklers. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Catholic.
Sentence:  The Institute adds that [WSD]seatback[/WSD] width can be reduced considerably to improve visibility without sacrificing support strength and antiwhiplash protection. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The usually vertical portion of a chair or similar piece of furniture that supports the back.
Sentence:  The only condition of the loan is that if the Daughters of the American Revolution are ever disbanded, that the [WSD]fireback[/WSD] is to be returned to the descendants of General Lincoln. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
Sentence:  If anybody tries a [WSD]backshot[/WSD], they will be blasted into dust. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A shot in the back.
Sentence:  As we have noted, back pain may stem from many [WSD]nonback[/WSD] conditions, including peptic ulcer, prostate disease, kidney disease, retroverted uterus... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Not of or pertaining to the back (rear side of the body).
Sentence:  A prearranged [WSD]loanback[/WSD] of the entire gift property itself (rather than just the income therefrom) may well be disregarded as being merely a grantor retained control over the property, thereby causing the entire amount of the "loan" to be included in the grantor's estate. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A loan from a trust fund to the grantor that created the fund.
Sentence:  Through this two-year, transcontinental colloquy, through this vast outpouring of personal sentiments and reactions from poor homes and rich, from backwoods cabins and metropolitan penthouses, from the young and old, from dubious [WSD]backbench[/WSD] sitters and busy pillars of the congregations, from the bitter and the satisfied, each person telling it as he or she saw it. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back pew of a church.
Sentence:  Each unique [WSD]backcourt[/WSD] was an adventure playground with walls to be climbed, chasms to be leaped and dustbins to be raked through and pillaged. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A courtyard behind a housing block or tenement building.
Sentence:  The farmers are not the class of thickheads and mossbacks and [WSD]waybacks[/WSD] which the Government imagine them to be. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An uneducated person from a remote area.
Sentence:  When it was light enough we climbed a mesa, winding around the far side before coming up to watch our [WSD]backtrail[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The path over which one has already traveled.
Sentence:  Mr. H<small>UDSPETH</small>. ... I stood here and did all in my power to keep the “[WSD]wetback[/WSD]” ... from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that. / The C<small>HAIRMAN</small>. ... What is a a “[WSD]wetback[/WSD]”? / Mr. H<small>UDSPETH</small>. You have heard a “[WSD]wetback[/WSD]” described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Mexican or Central American who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border.
Sentence:  Furthermore, the Target plans provide a guaranteed [WSD]loanback[/WSD] facility with loans from as little as £5,001. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A loan made from a pension or annuity to someone who has contributed money to that pension or annuity.
Sentence:  Whatever you throw is your "chance". I called five for the main, which is the "out" chance, and threw seven to it, which is the "in" chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can [WSD]back[/WSD] me [WSD]in[/WSD] by betting the odds, or you can back me out, by taking the odds, the bank answers either way. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A betting term from French hazard
Sentence:  The straight-forward course, they say, would be to proclaim outright, instead of trying to bring it in by the [WSD]backstairs[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An indirect or furtive means of access or intercourse.
Sentence:  Jack preferred the [WSD]wayback[/WSD], where he could look out the zippered plastic rear window at where we'd been. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area in the body of a car behind the rear seat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.
Sentence:  Only, Mercury Villagers do not have [WSD]waybacks[/WSD]. They have third seats, rear seats, or cargo areas, but not [WSD]waybacks[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area in the body of a car behind the rear seat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.
Sentence:  The danger of the situation was increased by the mischievous conduct of Alderman Townshend, who had been brought down to the House, pale and bandaged from a recent surgical operation, in order to pour forth a diatribe against female caprice and [WSD]backstairs[/WSD] influence; ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Secret or furtive.
Sentence:  Classmates naturally turn to look at the [WSD]backbencher[/WSD], who must acknowledge his presence, with some embarrassment. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A student who does not perform well, especially one who sits at the back of the classroom.
Sentence:  The only other [WSD]knockback[/WSD] in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district was from Benny Westwood of the Advance Tyre Service. He, too, ordered us off the premises. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A rejection; a refusal.
Sentence:  Somehow I managed a nod...and Ramses satisfied disappeared and started for the upper levels presumably through one of the [WSD]backwings[/WSD] that were located parallel but behind the main floors in the complex. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A wing at the rear of a building.
Sentence:  So the Knicks, who began the season with a depleted frontcourt, have muddled through the last six weeks with a depleted [WSD]backcourt[/WSD] as well. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A team's defensive half of the court; the part of the court where the other team's basket is located, or the guards playing in that area.
Sentence:  I feel ya man, go set her straight on Cally and [WSD]holla back[/WSD] at me. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To contact again at a later time.
Sentence:  The Harry Potter Devotee (HPD) offers ten names that might be characters in the Harry Potter series of books (preferably from the [WSD]backbenches[/WSD] of the wizarding world to make it more challenging), and the adult must try to guess whether they are real or fake. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A position of secondary importance.
Sentence:  The president spoke outside the brick exterior of the firehouse for Ladder Company 10 and Engine Company 10, against the [WSD]backdrop[/WSD] of a 56-foot-long bronze bas-relief depicting the towers in flames. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An image that serves as a visual background.
Sentence:  In a way, he was [WSD]taken aback[/WSD] by the absence of discouragement. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
Sentence:  Lightning outlines Woo Doggy's silhouette outside the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] door. Kris stretches over to unlock it. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
Sentence:  A large proportion of the steerage passengers [WSD]throw back[/WSD] to their Darwinian ancestry. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  to revert to an earlier stage of development
Sentence:  Other bystanders had noticed him and like Rizby, had kept their distance, but now they began to creep forward to peer at the body. ‘[WSD]Stay back[/WSD]!' Rizby yelled. ‘Back! All of you!' 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To keep one's distance from a place, often because of some danger.
Sentence:  By employing virtual reality and new communications technologies, Prince, who in the early 1980s was one of the world's most successful crossover artists, has now succeeded in form of [WSD]crossback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
Sentence:  Many of the later style fireplaces, most especially of the better class, showed firebacks. These were of iron, and were designed to keep the back of the fireplace from cracking. ... In the Pickering house on Broad Street, Salem, is a quaint [WSD]fireback[/WSD] which was made in the first iron foundry at Saugus, now Lynn. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A piece of iron that fits into the back of a fireplace to distribute the heat and keep the brick from cracking.
Sentence:  Cold preservation is a component of the donor organ resection procedure, not the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] preparation. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Pertaining to the preparation of a donor organ prior to transplantation.
Sentence:  The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of [WSD]backwood[/WSD] farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Native to or located in a remote rural location.
Sentence:  They identify three tangible [WSD]paybacks[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A benefit, reward, a form of recompense.
Sentence:  Then her eyes, always alert for the affairs of her kitchen, fell on some action of the Chinese cook which aroused her violent disapproval. She turned on him with a torrent of abuse. The Chink was not [WSD]backward[/WSD] to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Reluctant or unable to advance.
Sentence:  RALPH: This dress is not made for a big boy. It's going right up the [WSD]back alley[/WSD] there. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The anus.
Sentence:  A running fullback radically improves the attacking prowess of any [WSD]back line[/WSD], particularly if she is able to read a play, knowing when it's time to hit the line at pace or to join the line to act as an extra attacker. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The seven players who do not play as forwards and whose primary responsibility is defense.
Sentence:  The attitude of the Observer [WSD]backbench[/WSD] when I filed the story the following sunday showed how happy my sub-editing colleagues from the previous winter were with my feat. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A group of top-level journalists who jointly review submissions and decide on the layout and emphasis of the newspaper.
Sentence:  We see the immense, massive granite sarcophagi which had contained the embalmed mummies of the worshipped animals, coming out of this labyrinth, we pay our [WSD]backsheesh[/WSD], remount our donkeys and return to the automobile. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  in the Middle East, southwest Asia and Eastern Europe: a bribe or tip.
Sentence:  Only a fine interception from Mickael Silvestre denied the marauding Czech international an early chance from Tomasz Radzinski's [WSD]layback[/WSD] and, as United struggled to find any momentum, their hosts threatened to overwhelm them. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A short backwards pass to a teammate in an attacking position
Sentence:  One of the most debated subjects in the whole of equestrianism is whether or not horses have bad backs. For some horsemen, a horse with a [WSD]'cold-back[/WSD]' is merely demonstrating eccentric behaviour; for others, every unexpected response is indicative of a back problem. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A syndrome in which a horse refuses to accept anything on its back (often a symptom of chronic lower back soreness)
Sentence:  ...but that is really a [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] rent, because I have sold all the produce of my farm six months before I am called upon to pay the last six months' rent. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Retrospective, occurring after the fact rather than in advance.
Sentence:  But, Jack was a [WSD]backbencher[/WSD] in the committee. His main function was to keep an eye on the theatre's income. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Someone who does not play an active role in a process.
Sentence:  The [WSD]backhandedness[/WSD] of this procedure reflects the fact that null hypothesis tests are motivated by rhetorical considerations. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Indirection.
Sentence:  Le Vau is responsible for the jutting central core, while the wings that [WSD]backstep[/WSD] so elegantly were designed Hardouin-Mansart. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To be arranged in steps going backwards.
Sentence:  Frank was [WSD]taken aback[/WSD] when Lisa told him that she also needed forgiveness from him, for actions, for words, and for unspoken thoughts. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
Sentence:  Robust adaptive [WSD]backstepping[/WSD] control algorithms are developed for state feedback tracking of a class of uncertain dynamic nonlinear systems preceded by unknown dead-zone nonlinearities, in the presence of bounded external disturbances. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To finish a specification that was initially incomplete once enough progress has been made to know all the details.
Sentence:  The quality of these buttons and charms is best rolled gold and hard enameled in correct colors, the button having either a [WSD]screwback[/WSD] or a jewelers' catchpin. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A mechanism for attaching a small item to clothing that operates by a post which goes through the cloth and a small backing plate that screws to the post. Also, the medal, tie pin, button, etc. that uses this type of attachment.
Sentence:  I would rather board a hundred of the enemy's frigates, than steer my boat into a fleet of modest women, for a modest woman never fails to take me [WSD]aback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage)
Sentence:  ...the chemo had not worked and had gone back into his brain....He had [WSD]knockback[/WSD] after [WSD]knockback[/WSD]. It would have taken its toll on anyone. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Something that impedes or reverses progress; a setback.
Sentence:  There he was three into the bunker and bogey for the hole was four, and making up his mind to lay the ball dead, he took his niblick and executed a beautiful [WSD]screwback[/WSD] shot which landed within a foot of the pin, rolled to the edge of the hole, and there stopped dead, doubtless owing to the eternally damned influence of the aforesaid cloven hoofprint. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A powerful shot that imparts a spin to the ball.
Sentence:  The petitioner who was a student of Class X was in the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] when a lady teacher was teaching there. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back row of a classroom.
Sentence:  During 1994, the national team players were away for a game in January and again during the season-ending league championship tournament in April. The “[WSD]backbenchers[/WSD]” won all these games. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
Sentence:  Most cruelly, the immediate security interests of the United States and the states surrounding Somalia are now to keep it a failed state, to prevent Islamists from consolidating even a weak state centered on Mogadishu. The leader of the victorious faction, one Aden Hashi 'Ayro, is said to be a veteran of Afghanistan; he knows well what a small sanctuary in a [WSD]backward[/WSD] corner of the globe can mean for al Qaeda. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Of a culture: undeveloped or unsophisticated.
Sentence:  When caught for breaking the language rule, the punishment was to [WSD]stay back[/WSD] in school and write lines of repentance for his wrongdoing: but in the school fields and canteens, Leow noted that, “students chattered in Mandarin and Hokkien as they wished with nobody to stop them.” 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours
Sentence:  Apocalypse also happens to be a Fagin figure, shuffling around the [WSD]back alleys[/WSD] of Cairo, where he makes the weather-controlling pickpocket Storm (Alexandra Shipp) his first follower by offering her baubles. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An alleyway that runs behind a row of houses, or between rows of houses
Sentence:  The seats are benches with [WSD]crossbacks[/WSD]; the desks have movable tops, but these are to be replaced by stools and good stationary desks. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
Sentence:  Other feet were already in the lower flight of the [WSD]backstairs[/WSD]; but the upper flight was the one for me, and in an instant we were racing along the upper corridor ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A staircase at the rear of a building or one normally only used by servants and tradesmen.
Sentence:  Don't mistake this for even a [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] compliment; that at least takes a wry sense of imagination. This is a patronizing compliment, which is worse than no compliment at all. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Insincere, sarcastic, ironic, or self-contradictory.
Sentence:  In some respects, it might be "too" faithful to the genre it savages; as in many real rom-coms, the energy flags during the plot's [WSD]backstretch[/WSD], and audiences may share the drifting interest of Kyle (w 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The middle part of an event.
Sentence:  "Guess he's a [WSD]cold-back[/WSD]," Slim observed when Blackie had calmed down somewhat. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A horse with cold-back.
Sentence:  Far out in the uncharted [WSD]backwaters[/WSD] of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
Sentence:  Germany eased off in the second half and this was a night when Joachim Löw, like Southgate, took the opportunity to [WSD]keep back[/WSD] his best XI. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To restrict or restrain.
Sentence:  Nobody goes up my [WSD]back alley[/WSD] without a rubber on and I don't do heroin, so what's the worry? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The anus.
Sentence:  He lifted his hand in a [WSD]knockback[/WSD] spell, which would send me sailing right into the zombie. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.
Sentence:  Sheridan managed to keep the [WSD]graybacks[/WSD] at bay while he tore up the railroad, but he abandoned the plan to link up with Hunter, and the southerners soon repaired the railroad. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
Sentence:  Regardless of the origin of the kidney graft, LD or deceased donor, [WSD]backbench[/WSD] preparation for robotic implantation follows some specific steps. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Pertaining to the preparation of a donor organ prior to transplantation.
Sentence:  Films and radio have penetrated to the [WSD]waybacks[/WSD] of New Zealand and to the Pacific Islands. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A very remote time or place.
Sentence:  You see, the House of Representatives recently passed a military budget that is wholly inadequate, a [WSD]throwback[/WSD] to the seventies, a budget that is a breach of faith with our Armed Forces and our allies and would send exactly the wrong signal to the Soviets and their satellites. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
Sentence:  Chet and Wende looked helplessly at each other on the [WSD]backbench[/WSD] of the Ford van. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back seat of an automobile, van, or bus.
Sentence:  And Netherlands, [WSD]backed[/WSD] by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To support.
Sentence:  Of course the printers are not all doing the same kind of work: some are printing the greenbacks, some the [WSD]brownbacks[/WSD], some the faces, and others the backs and faces, of the revenue stamps. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A postage stamp printed in brown ink, used in the 1890s.
Sentence:  She was a little [WSD]taken aback[/WSD] to find the front door of heavy oak unlocked. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
Sentence:  We've come a long way since then. The progeny of that nail have been bent and twisted into what we all know and love as roll overs, [WSD]kickbacks[/WSD], and thumper-bumpers. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A feature that saves the ball from draining and propels it back into play.
Sentence:  As seen elsewhere in the North Sea, transgression continued in the Late Jurassic, causing shorelines to [WSD]backstep[/WSD], with coeval deposition of the Heno Formation clastics and Lola Formation claystones. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To recede in an abrupt fashion due to marine transgression.
Sentence:  Up he went on concrete stairs that were eroded to [WSD]turtlebacks[/WSD] and slippery with evening's frost ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Anything having the shape of a turtle's back (that is, its shell).
Sentence:  The [WSD]crossback[/WSD] elastic strap not only gives greater excursion both in scapular abduction and in arm flexion but it helps to prevent the control attachment strap from riding over the shoulder during extreme arm flexion, such as when the amputee is working in areas over his head. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
Sentence:  There will be underground rivers, vast and wide, and huge cavernous killing zones with mist-wreathed stalagmite islands and waterfalls thundering into the subterranean depths — and stepping-stones and [WSD]brokeback bridges[/WSD] to traverse under ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Broken; derelict.
Sentence:  It's a volume for those who delight in exploring the [WSD]backwaters[/WSD] of nineteenth-century opera. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc.
Sentence:  In other words, they were put on the proverbial [WSD]backbench[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A position of secondary importance.
Sentence:  In fact, one incensed male interviewee told me that Tanya needed a "good [WSD]backshot[/WSD] inna har belly fi keep har quiet" (a good [WSD]backshot[/WSD] up inside her abdoment to heep her quiet/calm). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (slang) A sexual position in which the man penetrates his partner from behind.
Sentence:  The work went [WSD]backward[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
Sentence:  They waited there for some five minutes when, suddenly, on the [WSD]backtrail[/WSD], perhaps a half mile or more behind them, there were three flashes, sudden and bright, one after the other, brilliant in the cold, pure air. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The path over which one has already traveled.
Sentence:  I require a rigid skeletal shape and vent bones, nothing soft of spongy, excellent musculature, soft feathering and a good [WSD]backwing[/WSD] and tail 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The back portion of a bird's wing.
Sentence:  Two hours into the trip we discovered that Paul suffered from carsickness. Luckily, the [WSD]wayback[/WSD] was equipped with built-in bins alongside the walls. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An area in the body of a car behind the rear seat, such as the back of a station wagon, storage well in a VW bug, etc.
Sentence:  Already, we enter some airport bathrooms through a brief [WSD]switchback[/WSD] of walls, so that we don't ever grasp a door handle. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A zigzag path, road or railway track; especially a railway track in which the train travels in a reverse direction at each switch (from 1860s)
Sentence:  On Sunday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country would not [WSD]go back on[/WSD] its nuclear programme. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To fail to keep; to renege on.
Sentence:  I saw fat men or boys, lean, awkward, baldheaded, asthmatic, rheumatic, [WSD]waybacks[/WSD] and the last editions of the nursery, blowing at that light, when along would come some stray, solemn detachment of the human telegraph line, give a puff, clasp Liberty abover her head and whirl off in the full confidence that in time he would elope with the whole female kindergarden. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An uneducated person from a remote area.
Sentence:  It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the [WSD]backwoods[/WSD] close by. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A remote or sparsely inhabited region, especially in North America; away from big towns and from the influence of modern life.
Sentence:  [A]nd the [WSD]back of my hand[/WSD] to them that have come in the way, bringin' sorrow, an' desolation, an' misery on gentlefolks. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A display of disrespect or scorn.
Sentence:  According to rumors in the entertainment world on December 6, Girls' Generation will be making a [WSD]comeback[/WSD] next year with a masculine concept. They have supposedly decided on the title song in their new album and have begun filming the music video on December 6. It appears they have started preparing for a full-scale [WSD]comeback[/WSD]! It will be the girls' first Korean [WSD]comeback[/WSD] in a year since "I Got a Boy." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A return (e.g. to popularity, success, etc.) after an extended period of obscurity.
Sentence:  Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in the [WSD]back[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The inside margin of a page.
Sentence:  Then the sails on the mainmast were backing and we started getting stern way. "Eagle" was caught [WSD]aback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Backward against the mast; said of the sails when pressed by the wind from the "wrong" (forward) side, or of a ship when its sails are set that way. (First attested in the late 17th century.)<ref name=SOED/>
Sentence:  Whatever you throw is your "chance". I called five for the main, which is the "out" chance, and threw seven to it, which is the "in" chance. If I throw five first, I lose, and if seven I win. You can back me in by betting the odds, or you can [WSD]back[/WSD] me [WSD]out[/WSD], by taking the odds, the bank answers either way. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To bet on someone losing.
Sentence:  When parents are late, childcare workers have to [WSD]stay back[/WSD] late to take care of the children. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours
Sentence:  The information commissioner, Professor John McMillan, ruled that requests for watch officer logs and authorisations for [WSD]turnbacks[/WSD] were exempt from release because they could have a “substantial adverse effect” on the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS). 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The act of turning back a boat containing immigrants.
Sentence:  “Earth to Kimi, [WSD]holla back[/WSD],” Yvonne taunts after I miss another easy serve. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To reply.
Sentence:  Therefore these facts are doubly anomalous, since they have not only gemination after a [WSD]nonback[/WSD] vowel but also after a vowel that is stressed. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Not back; not produced at the back of the mouth.
Sentence:  Kim also recognizes fans by noticing particular endeavors on her blog and by occasionally recognizing their contact with her on [WSD]Throwback Thursdays[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Thursday on which someone follows this tradition by sharing previously-used content.
Sentence:  When depression or breakdown is hollerin' at you . . . . [WSD]holla back[/WSD]. When temptation or weakness is hollerin' at you . . . . [WSD]holla back[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To reply.
Sentence:  Fuel savings from thermostat [WSD]setbacks[/WSD] have long been accepted as fact, but little documentation existed to support it. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An offset to the temperature setting of a thermostat to cover a period when more or less heating is required than usual.
Sentence:  The numbers in this column indicate which [WSD]backprint[/WSD] appears on that card. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Printing on the reverse side of a poster, postage stamp, or other printed material, usually for purposes of identification.
Sentence:  A more modest approach is for the parent to give money to a child, followed by a [WSD]loanback[/WSD] to the parent. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A loan from a trust fund to the grantor that created the fund.
Sentence:  You flew to Dallas last Thursday and showed up at the Hilton after I Instagrammed a picture from my bat mitzvah. It was [WSD]Throwback Thursday[/WSD]! That party happened over a decade ago. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Thursday on which someone follows this tradition by sharing previously-used content.
Sentence:  some reigns [WSD]backward[/WSD] 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
Sentence:  "Out upon ye, Mr. Saddletree!" exclaimed David, . . . "out upon your General Assembly, and the [WSD]back of my hand[/WSD] to your Court o' Session!" 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A display of disrespect or scorn.
Sentence:  For example, multiple [WSD]callbacks[/WSD] might be made to a nonanswered number to increase the response rate. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
Sentence:  In the fall and winter I shot in the lagoons and in the harbor of Greytown blue-wing and green-wing teal and gadwalls; also sickle-bill curlews, peeps or least sandpipers, and [WSD]brownbacks[/WSD] or grass birds. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A bird, the dowitcher or red-breasted snipe.
Sentence:  The bluntness of King Vajiralongkorn's intervention—and the determination it reveals to resist relatively small checks on royal power—is both a snub to the junta and a worry for democrats, some of whom had dared hope that the new king might be happy to take a [WSD]back seat[/WSD] in public life. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A lesser or inferior position; a position of deliberate noninvolvement, in which decision-making or leadership is left to others.
Sentence:  The most recent control units (3 GB cache size) provide a much better performance although the cache/[WSD]backstore[/WSD] ratio is similar. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A back end data storage; a backing store device.
Sentence:  It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was [WSD]taken aback[/WSD] by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Surprised, shocked.
Sentence:  He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. ... But she said she must [WSD]go back[/WSD], and when they joined the crowd again ... she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To return to a place after having been there at a previous time.
Sentence:  The idea of a British warship supposedly menacing Spain is ludicrous. Is it meant to bomb Cadiz? Will its guns lift a rush-hour [WSD]tailback[/WSD] in a colony that most Britons regard as awash with tax dodgers, drug dealers and right-wing whingers? The Gibraltarians have rights, but why British taxpayers should send warships to enforce them, even if just "on exercise", is a mystery. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A line of motor vehicles causing or the result of traffic congestion or a traffic jam;  backup.
Sentence:  Aiden Gillen whimpers on his knees, stretching for the first time in years. And finally Sansa sentences him, and Arya swings the sword, or dagger as the case may be. For all the historical [WSD]callbacks[/WSD] in the episode, and in its old age Game Of Thrones keeps portentously reciting old lines verbatim, this [WSD]callback[/WSD] is the most resonant. Ned always said the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. His daughters are finding a different way forward. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
Sentence:  How many turned around and headed for wherever they came from is not known, but these "[WSD]gobacks[/WSD]" or "turnarounds," as many emigrants called them, often complained that there was either little or no grass for their animals or that there was too much cholera or that the Indian threat was too great. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An emigrant heading west on the (Oregon Trail) who gave up and turned back to the east.
Sentence:  They take everything the priests got and then zzzip." Melnick ran his fingers across his throat. "Sayonara, [WSD]crossbacks[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A Catholic.
Sentence:  It's been a real team effort, a commitment to defense and [WSD]backchecking[/WSD] by everybody. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
Sentence:  Blackpool's aggregate victory ensures Birmingham are now preparing for a potential summer of change. Manager Chris Hughton has been operating against a [WSD]backdrop[/WSD] of financial uncertainty all season and last night Peter Pannu, the vice-chairman, announced that the club's accounts would finally be published next week, and that a new investor had been identified. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The setting or background of an acted performance.
Sentence:  Mr Como was quite displeased and he told me to [WSD]stay back[/WSD] tomorrow and do it. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To remain (at work, school, organisation, country, etc.) after normal hours
Sentence:  Behind the neo-Renaissance facades were high-rental apartments, and behind these, filling up the deeply cut speculative properties, were labyrinths of dark courts and [WSD]backwings[/WSD], one behind the other. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A wing at the rear of a building.
Sentence:  Some other playgoers are supping on the day's pottage at the [WSD]backbenches[/WSD] nearby, some with a glass of reddish everyday plonk. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A bench at the back of a room or seating area.
Sentence:  This project / Should have a [WSD]back[/WSD] or second, that might hold, / If this should blast in proof. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A support or resource in reserve.
Sentence:  As is known, there are two opinions among financial experts and economists:.one holds that without administrative interference in the regulations governing hard currency circulation, which by itself is harmful for the social economy, one cannot achieve financial stabilization;  the other, on the opposite, is against any administrative restrictions, and advocates a natural stabilization of the money supply, as a result of which all "greenbacks," "graybacks," and "[WSD]brownbacks[/WSD]" will disappear from circulation on their own. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  Thinks I to myself, "Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer &lsquo;cottage&rsquo;nb...." So I started to [WSD]back[/WSD] away again into the bushes. But I hadn't [WSD]backed[/WSD] more'n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn't help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To go in the reverse direction.
Sentence:  This reel need not be very large, nor yet very expensive, a plain, easy-running wooden one about three inches in diameter, and costing no more than  from two to three shillings, will be plenty good enough ; but one thing the tyro ought to observe, and that is, the reel should have a strong [WSD]crossback[/WSD] to it ; the brasswork on the back should be fitted right across and in four opposite directions. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
Sentence:  Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends / Kickin' in the front seat / Sittin' in the [WSD]back seat[/WSD] / Gotta make my mind up / Which seat can I take? 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Any of the seats in the rear of a vehicle.
Sentence:  There are also times when a player needs to enlist the aid of the [WSD]backstep[/WSD] while on the baseline. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A step backwards
Sentence:  As noted, that method provides limited support for multi-table [WSD]flashbacks[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
Sentence:  It would be easy to draw a popular conclusion that this [WSD]backhandedness[/WSD] of the language proves the backwardness of their civilization, and the fact that the Turk ought to go way back and sit down in remote Asia 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Backwardness of direction.
Sentence:  As an experienced editor I disapprove of [WSD]backflashes[/WSD], foreshadowings and tricksy devices ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  (flashback) (dramatic device)
Sentence:  In the emergency of a shortage of cash the city resorted to a temporary issue of scrip called "[WSD]brownbacks[/WSD]." 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A note of scrip printed on brown paper, such as that issued by the city of St. Louis during a financial crisis.
Sentence:  In fall 1984, Brian Mulroney led a cabinet with far more political experience than the Conservative [WSD]backbench[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  In a house of legislature following the model of the Westminster system (such as the UK House of Commons), any bench behind either of the front benches and occupied by rank-and-file members.
Sentence:  There's some [WSD]back and forth[/WSD] between Simpson and his CIA counterparts and, in essence, the CIA says that you must ship all of the quantities requested. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Negotiations or discussions between two or more parties, a dialog.
Sentence:  Whether tip-toeing daintily or skidding with controlled abandon across the space, Harold's softshoe dance ran the gamut of classic jazz dance steps. Circling [WSD]crossbacks[/WSD] and crossovers, step-ball-changes, spin turns and grapevines, ... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
Sentence:  Some prayed for what was known as a 'blighty' wound or a [WSD]'backsheesh[/WSD]' wound, a wound that would be bad enough to have them sent home but not so bad that it would cripple them. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A minor wound that is severe enough to get a soldier sent away from the front.
Sentence:  and flies unconscious o'er each [WSD]backward[/WSD] year 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  Already past or gone; bygone.
Sentence:  They haven't seen humans for years, so when a small expedition, led by Jason Clarke, stumbles into apetopia, both sides are [WSD]taken aback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
Sentence:  The trader roars like an animal whose paw has been caught in a trap, but he hauls back his other arm and lands a [WSD]backhanded[/WSD] blow to the side of her head that knocks her sideways onto the babushki bench. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  With the back of the hand.
Sentence:  As a dressing, combine the extra-virgin olive oil and garlic in a small bowl, seasoning with salt and pepper. Arrange the whole eggplants and tomatoes on a large platter. Slice the lamb [WSD]backstraps[/WSD] diagonally and lay the meat over the eggplants and tomatoes. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A loin of meat consisting of the muscle on each side of the spine.
Sentence:  To ensure that this does not happen a [WSD]crossback[/WSD] to a normal is advised every third year at least. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
Sentence:  She was not [WSD]taken aback[/WSD] to find he lived in a ramshackle log hut among the trees. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To surprise or shock; to discomfit.
Sentence:  Lee Barnard swung at Chaplow's [WSD]cutback[/WSD] and missed completely and then was just too far away to connect with Harding's flashing ball across the face of goal. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An offensive pass played into a position further from the attacking goal line.
Sentence:  By the second scrimmage of the season he was a [WSD]backbencher[/WSD], suspended from the game for disciplinary reasons. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A member of a team who does not usually play, but who is held in reserve.
Sentence:  It would be so easy for Jed to jerk his rifle from its sheath, lever a cartridge into the firing chamber and put a bullet right between Colter's shoulder blades. For a fleeting moment, Jed considered doing just that. But he knew he was not a [WSD]backshooter[/WSD] and more than that, he wanted to see the truth of the murder in Colter's eyes and make him squirm before dying at the end of a rope... 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A cowboy who kills someone by shooting them in the back
Sentence:  The stope is kept full of broken ore, sufficient only being drawn to leave a working space between the floor of broken ore and the [WSD]back[/WSD] of the stope. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
Sentence:  "That's peanuts. I'm talking about real money," replied [Senator] Ted [Kennedy], who in fact had no idea how much the developer would pay, as that detail had yet to be worked out. / "What are your other main reasons?" Liedell asked, persisting with the old [WSD]silverback[/WSD]. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A dominant older human male.
Sentence:  When you order Turtleback Books from Baker & Taylor, you can be assured you get [WSD]Turtlebacks[/WSD]! 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
Sentence:  Whisky he sipped at suspiciously, and still had not got an adult taste for; but wine he loved, and he [WSD]put back[/WSD] champagne as if it were lager, with awful belches and chuckles after each glass. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To drink fast; to knock down alcohol.
Sentence:  A smart defensive player knows when to [WSD]backcheck[/WSD] the puck carrier and when to [WSD]backcheck[/WSD] to cover an open player. / Hockey has no greater test of your heart and intensity than your willingness to [WSD]backcheck[/WSD], particularly at the end of a sustained attack when the other team has suddenly come up with the puck and you are feeling exhausted. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To engage in checking while skating toward or near one's own goal.
Sentence:  Tony's smile departed his face and sadness became him. Pete began to [WSD]backstep[/WSD] his words. He was filled with remorse over what he had asked the Corporal and was quick to reassure Tony that she was there, waiting. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  To retract or take back.
Sentence:  Newcastle produced a stunning [WSD]comeback[/WSD] from 4-0 down to earn a draw that shocked title hopefuls Arsenal. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An occurrence of an athlete or sports team in a competition overcoming a substantial disadvantage in points to win or draw.
Sentence:  We are rather stifled by the Administration, however, until the second and third floors of the [WSD]backwings[/WSD] are completed and we can kick the Applied Mechanics Department and Mineral Industries Department out, when they can move in the new Academic Science Building when that is completed, at which time then we will have space for a lounge. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  A wing at the rear of a building.
Sentence:  With a disgusted [WSD]backwing[/WSD], I let myself down, hard. 
Sense of the word in [WSD] tags:  An act of backwinging.