Editorial »

How to use the word behind in a Sentence? Page #2

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

Filter by category:

2,586 results found

Right now, the MABAS 8 TRT rescue team is still operating behind us. They’re performing the secondary searches. They’re also looking into the stabilization of the building.

Belvidere Fire Chief Shawn Schadle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The beneficial thing for working behind the window is that it is visible, and you feel safer. In an erotic center, you don’t have the same feeling because you’re closed off in a building.

Felicia Anna

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I lost a lot and went through a lot, not least, my mother’s tears at the idea of my situation. I lost [left behind] my husband, grandfather, and grandmother. This is a huge price for anyone.

Olesya Krivtsova

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I understand the emotion behind this bill, but you cannot legislate on emotion and this bill is a sword that will cut both ways, this bill has the potential to stifle, if not shut down, center right media and conservative talk radio.

Trey Radel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Without the research, and without the statistics, you have no ability of understanding that entire communities are being left behind.

Emily Ocasio

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you think back to the original Voyager pictures of Uranus, it was just kind of a pale blue ball with nothing on it. You didn’t see clouds, you didn’t see haze, you didn’t see anything … so there was a polar cap then, but we couldn’t see it, what we’ve been watching over time (using Hubble), is this buildup of this high-altitude haze in the atmosphere, and the exact purpose or the exact mechanism behind it, we don’t know, that’s one of the things we’re studying.

Amy Simon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Tristyn, I wanted to let you know we are so extremely proud of the person that you were in your time here, when you went out into the world, you gave it your very best. You should be proud of the friend that you were, the teammate you were, and what you left behind.

Forrest Bailey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think you’re not answering the question, two person crews make our trains safer. I wish you would commit to that today, because I think that it’s pretty obvious that is the correct answer. I get sick of industry executives talking about supporting about the principal of regulation while they lobby against common sense regulations like this one behind the scenes.

Massachusetts Democrat Edward Markey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s hard to project because we don’t know everything we need to know about the drivers (behind this), we know it’s variable from year to year and that the trajectory is generally going upwards. So based on what we’ve seen in the past, we’re thinking we could continue to see this worsen for years to come. What will it be like in 10 years? Will it be double the size it is now?

Brian Lapointe

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That was an important point for me to have in the show, that notion of the Irishness, that unbeknownst to her, she was going to be leaving behind as well.

Paul Linehan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Especially when you’re talking about Annie’s phase, the Ellis Island age, people making that decision – boy, that took guts, the best they were going to do was communicate by letter (with the loved ones they left behind). It was like going to the moon.

Megan Smolenyak

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Behind Story, what you would find is an ecosystem of hundreds of hospitality workers who depend on the club for their livelihoods, enforcement of the ordinance meant unemployment for these people. Story is in business and we are confident that Story will prevail in Court.

Sean Burstyn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s very likely that Tehran had to commit to pressuring its allies in Yemen Yemen to be more forthcoming on ending the conflict in that country, but we do n’t know yet what behind-the-scenes understandings have been reached.

Hussein Ibish

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s a primary. I’m a grassroots person. Eventually, it’s in my nature to get behind somebody.

Katrina Pierson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They allowed him to leave, to join the rest of our family and to receive the care that he needed for his life-threatening condition, i can only hope that they summon that same spirit of humanity to do what is needed on their part, so that the rest of us — Morad, Emad and I — can also be reunited with our families, and to start putting this dark past behind us.

Siamak Namazi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I reiterate my public apology on behalf of all those who ruled the country for years, but mainly personally, i therefore assume responsibility. And we cannot, we do not want to, we must not hide behind a series of human errors.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I didn’t edit during production just because it was just too big of a load to carry with the writing and the acting, but then you know, being a producer, I was there on set every day going behind-the-scenes with notes, supporting our directors and our DP’s. When I go and watch, editing now, it’s a thrill. That’s a credit to the work that the writers did, but then also the way these actors portray them.

Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is literally what I do every day, i didn’t edit during production just because it was just too big of a load to carry with the writing and the acting, but then you know, being a producer, I was there on set every day going behind-the-scenes with notes, supporting our directors and our DP’s. When I go and watch, editing now, it’s a thrill. That’s a credit to the work that the writers did, but then also the way these actors portray them.

Jason Sudeikis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We stand squarely behind Matt Schlapp, and the ACU Board of Directors has full confidence in his leadership of the organization.

Carlton Huffman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In order to put this episode of high inflation behind us, further policy tightening, maintained for a longer time, will likely be necessary, absent a substantial pickup in the share of working-age adults looking to be employed or a large change in immigration flows, labor force participation will continue to decline and worker shortages will persist, pushing up wages and ultimately prices, at least in the near and medium term.

San Francisco

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With the level of user interest and use, companies don’t want to be left behind, so there’s a base incentive to embrace new tech to remain competitive, if users engage more with a service that means more data for advertising, marketing of goods and services, and potentially stronger customer relationships.

Michael Inouye

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The military obviously has gained the most and so has the most to lose from a deal like this, but also, Sisi at the end of the day needs to keep the backbone of his regime united behind him.

Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Posting the behind the scenes of your life creates top of the mind awareness.

Josh King Madrid

added by JoshKingMadrid
1 year ago

The Equity Commission’s recommendations, and other related efforts the Department is already undertaking, will make our programs benefit every working American, particularly those who have been left behind.

The USDA

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Discuss these sample sentences with the community:

0 Comments

    Are we missing a good definition for behind? Don't keep it to yourself...

    Word of the Day

    Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?

    Please enter your email address:



    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Chrome

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Free, no signup required:

    Add to Firefox

    Get instant definitions for any word that hits you anywhere on the web!

    Browse Definitions.net

    Quiz

    Are you a words master?

    »
    (of a flowering plant) having two cotyledons in the seed
    A bristly
    B jejune
    C repugnant
    D dicotyledonous